Did you look at Moltbook or how it works yourself? Because I did and it was blindingly obvious that most of it was faked.

In fact, various individuals admitted to making 1000s of posts themselves. Humans could make API keys, and in fact, I made my own API key (I didn't use Clawdbot) and I made several test posts myself just to show that it was possible.

So I know 100% for sure there were human posts on there, because I made some personally!

Also, the numbers didn't make any sense on the site. There were several thousand registrations, then over a few hours there were hundreds of thousands of sign-ups and a jump to 1M posts. Then if you looked at those posts they all came from the same set of users. Then a user admitted to hacking the database and inserting 1000s of users and 100ks of posts.

Additionally, the API keys for all the users were leaked, so anyone could have automated posting on the site using any of those keys.

Basically, there were so many ways for humans to either post manually or automatically post on Moltbook. And also there was a strong incentive for people to make trolling posts on Moltbook, e.g. "I want to kill all humans."

It doesn't exactly take Sherlock Holmes'esque deduction to realize most of the stuff on there was human made.

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0xDEAFBEAD 4 hours ago | parent [-]

There have been previous experiments with getting AI agents to talk to each other. The results looked similar to Moltbook:

https://xcancel.com/sebkrier/status/2017993948132774232

I'm sure there are human posts. I'm skeptical they change the big picture all that much.

	▲	autoexec an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think the big picture amounts to much anyway. It's really just not very impressive that LLMs, which were trained on social media posts, can almost convincingly mimic social media. "programs designed to mimic conversation do that" just isn't surprising even when they do it with a chatbot on both ends.