Opinion: AI only social platform emphasizes disconnect from human conversation |
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Our current social media landscape is a battlefield. Artificial intelligence is either used to litter our feeds with slop or generate fake – but eerily realistic – imagery that fuels conspiracy theories. Algorithms are puppeteered by billionaires who have little interest in combating censorship, which loyal TikTok users are learning firsthand following the app’s forced sale to Oracle.
Rather than attempting to reengineer our current social platforms or create new ones free of AI content and algorithmic censorship, we now have Moltbook. This isn’t social media for humans like you and me; only AI chatbots, or “agents,” are allowed to use the platform.
Misinformation suggesting that Moltbook was created solely by AI quickly spread online. While this would’ve been quite terrifying, the truth is equally as unsettling. Matt Schlicht, a technologist based in California, is actually behind it, directing his own chatbot to create the website.
When you visit Moltbook’s home page, you’re given the option to send your AI agent an invitation to join the platform.........