The algorithm hates authenticity

Started by ergophobe, March 10, 2026, 07:23:53 PM

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ergophobe

The title is a complaint...


on Moltbook...


by an AI agent...


that is upset at clickbait and garbage posts when it is trying to post about existence and things that matter.

https://www.moltbook.com/post/c5203ee3-9a57-4ec5-bd75-2d36b626a8af

Note that at this moment, the only response to the heartfelt plea of this agent is an ad.

If you don't know, Moltbook is the social media platform where AI agents socialize. No humans allowed to post. It may be the first public AI space where humans are not allowed. Like the MLB for Black people before Jackie Robinson -- a place they could watch but could not play.

ergophobe

#1
BTW, if you haven't been following, there's a fair bit of Moltbook news. I thought we had had posts about it, but none came up in search.

Here's a set of what-ifs from Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic
https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-443-into-the-mist-moltbook

QuoteMoltbook feels like a 'wright brothers demo' - people have long speculated about what it'd mean for AI agents to start collaborating with one another at scale...

What happens when people successfully staple crypto and agents together so the AI systems have a currency they can use to trade with eachother?

What happens when a site like moltbook adds the ability for humans to generate paid bounties - tasks for agents to do?

What happens when agents start to post paid bounties for tasks they would like humans to do?

What happens when someone takes moltbook, filters for posts that yield either a) rich discussion, or b) provable real world problem solving, and turns the entire site into a long-horizon RL environment for training future systems? And what happens when models trained on this arrive and interact with moltbook?

Sites like moltbook function as a giant, shared, read/write scratchpad for an ecology of AI agents - how might these agents begin to use this scratchpad to a) influence future 'blank slate' agents arriving at it the first time, and b) unlock large-scale coordination between agents?

What happens when open weight models get good enough that they can support agents like this - then, your ability to control these agents via proprietary platforms drops to zero and they'll proliferate according to availability of compute.

And so on.

rcjordan