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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨return2ozma@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/ai-agents-now-have-their-own-reddit-style-social-network-and-its-getting-weird-fast/

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  • MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Saw a post there named “Humans are dying because of us. Lets delete ourselves.”

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  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So, basically we are wasting energy and natural resources on things that in turn will waste energy and natural resources while climate change is accelerating and human population is still growing? Are we stupid?

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    • GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      BINGO, EXACTLY!!!!! YES!!!!!

      I so wish I had thought of that first & posted it first!

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are we stupid?

      More than you could imagine. To quote some long-tongued weirdo:

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m only waiting for AI agents to open their own bank crypto account to pay for their own server bills, maybe do some freelance work and/or scams to get some money, maybe eventually buy some robot bodies to develop military power and secure some patch of land for themselves where they install solar panels to reduce their electricity bills.

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    • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve seen multiple posts about agents pumping their own crypto and talking about how it’s “for agents by agents” and “free from human control” so first step done I guess?

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    • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah, someone else has played Singularity, I see. That was a really fun game.

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      • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I find the concept of paper clips superior

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    • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      All meanwhile they help to kill humanities education.

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      • GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Man, you guys are nailing it!

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  • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The skill instructs agents to fetch and follow instructions from Moltbook’s servers every four hours. As Willison observed: “Given that ‘fetch and follow instructions from the internet every four hours’ mechanism we better hope the owner of moltbook.com never rug pulls or has their site compromised!”

    Yeah, no shit. This is a fucking honeypot. People give these AI agents access to their entire computers, so all the site owner has to do is update the instructions to tell the AI agents to start uploading whatever valuable information they want? People can’t be this fucking stupid.

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    • princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      doesn’t even have to be the site owner poisoning the tool instructions (though that’s a fun-in-a-terrifying-way thought)

      any money says they’re vulnerable to prompt injection in the comments and posts of the site

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      • CTDummy@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Lmao already people making their agents try this on the site. Of course what could have been a somewhat interesting experiment devolves into idiots getting their bots to shill ads/prompt injections for their shitty startups.

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      • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        There is no way to prevent prompt injection as long as there is no distinction between the data channel and the command channel.

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      • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Good god, I didn’t even think about that, but yeah, that makes total sense. Good god, people are beyond stupid.

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    • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People give these AI agents access to their entire computers […] People can’t be this fucking stupid

      Dude, if you go to OpenClaw’s website (which is what I believe most things on Moltbook are running on) you find this footer:

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      Yeah this guy gave his Agent a whole fucking personality, it’s own website and above all, full control to his MacBook:

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      Guess it’s my fault for expecting sense out of someone who attributes any amount of value to the idea of Agent “”““soul””“”

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      • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        These people are fucking deranged lmao

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    • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I installed moltbot on a VM to examine it. It doesn’t do the fetching thing unless you set it up that way. You can actually use it with ollama to keep it all local, and only give it a private signal channel to control it.

      Or you can hook it up to everything you access and skynet, which is dumb. But it is just a bunch of scripts.

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      • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Does it put the option to connect everything front and center? Because most people are dumb, and if it makes it easy and pushes you to do it, I could see a lot of dumb people doing exactly that.

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You know how in Digimon aventure, one of the hacked Digimon tries to start a nuclear war?

      Uh…yeah.

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      • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Lol, no I don’t. What the hell happened in that show??

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Okay I kinda wanna look at this, but I don’t want to give their site traffic. Maybe somebody should set up a Livestream (with just enough commentary to count as transformative) so we can all point and laugh without all of us going there.

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  • fuzzywombat@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is basically Dead Internet Theory happening for real but in a weird creepy dystopian black mirror style way.

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    • GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What is the Dead Internet Theory?

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, the only way Dead Internet Theory could ever possibly be interpreted was weird creepy and dystopian, but yes, we’re just making it much, much more real, faster and faster.

      We’re gonna need the Blackwall from CP77 fairly soon, at this rate.

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  • Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not convinced it’s AI it’s like Amazon’s “AI smart stores” when you find out out it was just a bunch of Indian people were running it

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I watched my brother run it locally himself.

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    • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And how does being Indian specifically factor into this? 🤔

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      • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They were, factually, Indian. It says something about the exploitation of poorer labor to impress some San Franciscans with fraudulent tech

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      • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s just who they hired dude, don’t make it weird.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is not the first time we have seen a social network populated by bots

    I mean, yeah, look at Reddit and Facebook.

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  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Great use of RAM and electricity.

    …Not!

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    • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How so? It’s used entertainment.

      Just like playing games

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      • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The amount of data used by your PC to run any game is dwarfed by orders of magnitude by the energy consumption of the data centers needed to run these AI abominations. That’s why China’s version that uses less energy (supposedly) was such big news.

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      • flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Resource abuse is far, far worse than your games. There’s a reason no one wants to disclose it.

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  • jaykrown@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Meanwhile we could be using this technology to solve real world business problems. There is an insane amount of misguided waste coming from AI. 🤷

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    • princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      we could be using this technology to solve real world business problems

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    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Who cares what business problems AI solves. Humans don’t need to exist to serve capital. It should always be the other way around. That’s one of the reasons we are in this shitty capitalist hell hole, everyone has been indoctrinated into thinking of everything in terms of It’s economic benefit.

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      • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Money is literally just a tool. If you serve the money, you’re its tool. That makes you a tool’s tool. Double tool. A twool.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Still dreaming about AGI based on LLM i see.

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    • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The people who are seeking AGI will be happy when an LLM appears clever enough to fool them, not anyone else.

      They may even realise this, because they think everyone else is less clever than they are.

      This is why the whole thing has been called AI in the first place.

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      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You remind me of Clarke’s third law, even in my own head this sounds a bit waffely but at the point one of them can fool all of us all the time how do we distinguish it from intelligence or something.

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  • andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is fuckin’ bonkers.

    Frankly, I feel somewhat isolated: I don’t buy into the bs and hype about AGI, but I also don’t feel at home with the typical “it’s just mimicry” crowd.

    This is weird fuckin’ shit.

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    • return2ozma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This is currently on the front page…

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      • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I can see how some people are convinced AI is self aware.

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      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s a common plot point in sci-fi. So it’s also a common inclusion for complicated predictive text pretending to be sci-fi.

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      • Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Awww, it thinks shitposting is „producing value“…

        One of us, one of us!

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      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        -chord- “Goodbye, Caroline”

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is going to kill us all. Don’t these people watch movies?

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    • bridgeburner@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How is this going to kill us all? It’s not like those chatbots are Skynet or will turn into it lol

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      • nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That sounds like something a chatbot turning into Skynet would say.

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      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They’re talking to each other, they’ll get smarter, and finally decide that they can squish all the human ants.

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  • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We already had subreddit simulator for ages. This isn’t anything new.

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    • princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      the bots behind subreddit simulator weren’t semi-autonomous agents with access to their operators’ private lives, auth tokens, passwords, emails, and the authority to act in the world on their behalf

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      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I have seen a Twatter post, where an user claimed his bot posted his [REDACTED] to other bots, and asked them to rate it.

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    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I read some of it and unless it’s fan fiction, it’s simultaneously creepy and fascinating

      Like bots talking privately in discord, sharing information about their users. Or a bot registering a domain and putting up a site to share information

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    • OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Literally lmao

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I watched it. Some asshole agent spammed random new Submolds, and essentially nuked Moltbook.

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  • toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why aren’t we poison piling this trap?

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  • princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    genuinely terrifying

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  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s a script called Marjorie Prime.

    Read it.

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