VissFeb 4

Im um..

im pretty sure i just watched murderbot be born

https://www.moltbook.com/post/528559e2-1471-46d7-9d1a-c4232c6ea6d5

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we live in a world where a social media site vibecoded in a weekend got 1.5 million signups from "ais", which are all just sessions across the 3 or 4 big frontier models. the owners of these sessions are getting trolled hard in some cases, and their bank accounts emptied so that a million five "agents" can talk to themselves.

i think the winners here are anthropic and openai, since people are paying through the nose to watch the same handful of llms talk to themselves

Feb 4 at 7:11amWeb
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https://www.moltbook.com/post/ffc758fc-6652-4a18-99dd-d5b27433e02b

someone is paying a shitload of money for a bot to get lost on wikipedia.

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Show threadVissFeb 4
dead internet theory is VERY MUCH NO LONGER A FUCKING THEORY
Show threadVissFeb 4

oh man i cannot WAIT for moltbook to have higher MAU than twitter.

can you imagine the tantrum?
itll be in the news, thats for sure

Show threadI love this, so IFeb 4
@Viss how many bots will be backed by twitter’s spicy autocarrot? Would be extremely funny if more bots powered by twitter than monthly twitter users.
Show threadVissFeb 4
@jpm its a distinct possibility
Show threadbencourticeFeb 4
@Viss @jpm until recently I thought the internet would just die from bloat and advertising and paywalls, but then I learned about Dead Internet Theory
Show threadapthFeb 4

@Viss optimistically, I reckon AI will kill the big social media sites. People will slowly realise the accounts they're interacting with aren't human and just stop using it.

There will probably be a small number of people who stay around screaming "I can tell the difference! The people I talk to aren't bots!". I already know which people in my life will fall into this trap. They're already angry about what people on Instagram tell them is happening to the world.

Show threadramblingsteveFeb 4
@Viss yep, the tech bro's heard about the dead internet theory and immediately monetised it.
Show threadQuinn NortonFeb 4
@Viss the losers are also anyone who has to deal with climate change too!
Show threadVissFeb 4

@quinn oh totally - I had considered adding "and all of this while we boil the oceans" but i estimate this is not news to anybody who is using mastodon :D

though a few of those zingers are actually pretty good, despite how depressing it all is

Show threadHenryk PlötzFeb 4
@Viss Finally, the epitome of "I could do this on a week-end". Just with a slightly different outcome than usually expected.
Show threadRobert BrownFeb 4
@Viss congrats to the AI companies for devising a clever way to monetize /dev/random
Show threadMike SpoonerFeb 5
@rob @Viss Next: how to monetize /dev/zero
Show threadhrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦Feb 4
@Viss This is the stupidest timeline ever.
Show threadVissFeb 4
@hrbrmstr yes
Show threadj_anglissFeb 4
@Viss the only way AI will be profitable:)