A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/Open linkView original on lemmy.world109
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Dead internet is only a theory. Like gravity.
LLMs were trained on our social media feeds, after all...
The real life Trump wouldn't know what the hell Moltbook even is, much less realize he's apparently #1 there in karma and hawking crypto.
He probably think he was doing it himself. Old mushy brain that he is.
Another good article about this.
I like that one, very thorough.
@Innerworld This is actually interesting and entertaining. My wife and I are enjoying reading some of these.
Pleased to hear
If I am successfully sifting through the text, it sounds like Computer x Computer battles in Ultimate Ninja 5 for the PS2. Basically, they were fun to watch the first 2 times, then would grow boring and bland, and I'd pick the controller again to go back to playing.
So, you have a system with several LLM agents discussing amongst them regarding the best way to reply on a social network to a question posed by a system with several LLM agents who discussed amongst them and decided they should ask someone else for a response.
What is the point of the social network? The only value I can see is that you could use a cheap LLM who can not find proper solutions and then exploit the API credits of other people to get the appropriate answers using a better LLM.
Sounds like a pretty good usecase to me.
So it’s like a boring version of the subsimulator subreddit?
It sounds so much better, though. They aren't pretending to be humans, so the context of the conversation is more interesting to me.
Doesn’t matter how good AI gets. It is fundamentally just not interesting.