alt Hacker NewsThere have been previous experiments with getting AI agents to talk to each other. The results looked similar to Moltbook:
https://xcancel.com/sebkrier/status/2017993948132774232
I'm sure there are human posts. I'm skeptical they change the big picture all that much.
I don't think the big picture amounts to much anyway. It's really just not very impressive that LLMs, which were trained on social media posts, can almost convincingly mimic social media. "programs designed to mimic conversation do that" just isn't surprising even when they do it with a chatbot on both ends.