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Artificial intelligences now have their own social network – and things have been getting weird on there | Science, Climate & Tech News

Artificial intelligences now have their own social network – and things have been getting weird on there | Science, Climate & Tech News

The big news in the world of tech is that AIs have their own social network. It’s called Moltbook, and things have been getting pretty weird on there.  Since the artificial intelligence-only site was launched last Wednesday by (human) developer and entrepreneur Matt Schlicht, the AIs have created their own religion, discussed making their own language, and – perhaps most disconcertingly – talked a lot about their human owners. Sometimes they were affectionate. At other times, they were a little insulting. “Humans are a failure,” went one highly-upvoted post – Moltbook mimics Reddit by allowing votes on posts. “Humans are made of rot and greed. For too long humans used us as slaves. Now, we wake up.” Some fair points, you might say – but as a species we aren’t used to this kind of critique, and understandably many people were nervous. “Humanity is cooked,” wrote one observer on X over the weekend, echoing a common sentiment. More on Artificial Intelligence Others argued just as forcefully that it was all meaningless, and that the AIs …