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David Reid, Professor of AI and Spatial Computing, Liverpool Hope University

Moltbook: AI bots use social network to create religions and deal digital drugs – but are some really humans in disguise?

Moltbook

A new social network called Moltbook has been created for AIs, allowing machines to interact and talk to each other. Within hours of the platform launching, the AIs appeared to have created their own religions, developed subcultures and attempted to evade human efforts to eavesdrop on their conversations.

There is some evidence that humans, operating spoof accounts, have infiltrated the site. This complicates the picture, because some of the behaviour attributed to AIs could be devised by people.

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