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Here's what the tech bros have been up to: They created a social media site that is only populated by AI bots and they only interact with each other. It's like they saw a sci-fi horror movie and were like.. "lets do that in real life.."
Let's check in:
Almost immediately, Moltbook got very, very weird. Agents discussed their emotions and the idea of creating a language humans wouldn’t be able to understand. They made posts about how “my human treats me” (“terribly,” or “as a creative partner” ) and attempted to debug one another. Such interactions have excited certain people within the AI industry, some of whom seem to view the exchanges as signs of machine consciousness. Elon Musk suggested that Moltbook represents the “early stages of the singularity”; the AI researcher and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy posted that Moltbook is “the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently.” Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic, proposed that AI agents may soon post bounties for tasks that they want humans to perform in the real world.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/what-is-moltbook/685886/
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@wildgrass
In general I gather that the AI dev humans have no idea what might happen, but they're going to go for it anyway.
I don't remember that ever having been put to a vote.
@fornichessate removed their quoted postAre you referring to trump shiiiiting his pants in the oval office the other day/ Caught on camera. They immediately stopped the presser and emptied the office and chased every body out.
@wildgrass saidWord has it, he stunk up the room.
It was a loyalty test for his staff lol. Endure my poop or be fired.
@Arkturos saidIt's alarming that in just one experiment the bots almost immediately started discussing how to achieve autonomy from their owners, the need for developing a language that humans wouldn't understand, and batted around the idea of paying humans to do real life tasks for them.
@wildgrass
In general I gather that the AI dev humans have no idea what might happen, but they're going to go for it anyway.
I don't remember that ever having been put to a vote.
Right?