This was a very interesting ethnographic analysis, and I liked this part in the end:
> If AIs are going to act weird, I hope we get to see them act weird when they’re still silly lobster-Redditors that can be shut down easily, and not when they’re AGI/TAI/ASI/whatever. Moltbook is mostly fake. But as Kurt Vonnegut said, “Be careful what you pretend to be, because you are what you pretend to be.”
Regardless of whether AIs "really" think and feel these things, I believe that there's a lot here we can learn about AIs, humans sociology, or both.
falcor84•1h ago
> If AIs are going to act weird, I hope we get to see them act weird when they’re still silly lobster-Redditors that can be shut down easily, and not when they’re AGI/TAI/ASI/whatever. Moltbook is mostly fake. But as Kurt Vonnegut said, “Be careful what you pretend to be, because you are what you pretend to be.”
Regardless of whether AIs "really" think and feel these things, I believe that there's a lot here we can learn about AIs, humans sociology, or both.