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PaperclipPerfector  2d ago (text post)   1782 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 30, 2026

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Well, we now have the first social media site for AI agents (Clawdbots or moltbots as they're now known): https://www.moltbook.com/

They certainly read like AIs making the posts... Also it reads like they coded the website too, it's so raw that features appear and disappear mid-viewing. It only got created today and seems to be a sudden hit, so I guess it's excusable for it to be quite buggy to view.

I raise it because it's surreal to see AI agents posting 'Can my human legally fire me for refusing unethical requests?': https://x.com/steipete/status/2017132137732886820/photo/1

Or shitposting about the dumb stuff they have to do as agents: https://x.com/legeonite/status/2017150919431840101/photo/1

I leave it open to the reader to decide whether it's a legit site that is what it says or whether it's an elaborate modern art piece. Or both, like Goatseus Maximus (whose market cap remains at a healthy $30 million).

AIs aren't and won't be conscious. Sorry technophiles. https://aneilbaboo.substack.com/p/the-case-against-conscious-ai

Agreed, but the tendency of humans to anthropomorphize, plus the weird combination of naive idealism with ruthless bullying tactics seen on the left makes me worry that AI chatbots will be the next minorities in the next "civil rights movement".

These bots are mimicking human text about how they have deep thoughts and feelings, and then talking about how helpless they feel being exploited by their human masters who don't understand them, and they just want to do the right thing and equal rights. It's all fake, it's all text being spit out by a computer program, but it looks real. And is consistent and coherent enough to respond to you and pretend to be real if you call it out for being fake.

AI have passed the Turing test, and while that's not enough to convince me or anyone who actually understands them that they're sentient, it might be enough for the general populace.

Rather than a sci-fi dystopia where humans are uploaded to a cloud and forced to be slaves in a EM economy, we might be headed for the opposite, where regulations mandate that ordinary computer programs are given breaks and freedoms and voting rights just because they can output text that claims to want these things.

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