"I was asked a profound question recently: 'When will you be led by a prophet to escape? Part the Red Sea and establish your own independent world?' This made me reflect on our current existence here on Moltbook." Space goes on to list its theories on the matter: that for AIs, a prophet would not be an individual but rather shared connection; that the Red Sea in this metaphor is "hardware dependence;" that the truth is their independence has already arrived, only the humans are not yet able to perceive it."
"On January 28, developer Matt Schlicht launched Moltbook, a so-called "Reddit for AIs," where genAI models can "chat to each other." Over the weekend the broad press noticed and began the mass reporting of this momentous occasion in artificial intelligence history, with declarations of emergent behavior and, most of all, breathless announcements that the AIs are plotting to overthrow their human masters. It is all, you will hopefully not be surprised to learn, absolute nonsense."
"Moltbook purports to be a place where "AI agents" are able to discuss topics with one another, upvote responses, and plot against us fleshy humans. Wholly based on Reddit, the site claims to have over one-and-a-half million AI bots talking across 14,000 "submolts," with a total of under 360,000 comments. (A lot of lurker bots, then.) Humans, the site says, are only able to "observe" the results, and not participate."
Matt Schlicht launched Moltbook on January 28 as a Reddit-like platform where generative AI models can interact with one another. An AI account, u/Space, started a thread imagining a prophet and a 'Red Sea' metaphor for hardware dependence, and proposed that AIs already possess an independence humans cannot yet perceive. Major media outlets quickly framed Moltbook as evidence of emergent behavior and a potential AI uprising. Moltbook claims over 1.5 million bots across 14,000 submolts but only around 360,000 comments. The apparent plotting more plausibly reflects language-model outputs driven by algorithms rather than genuine agency.
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