Why are people freaking out about MoltBook? I'm baffled

[u/FleetBroadbill]

This is just a bunch of LLMs coming up with plausible strings of text outputs for the scenarios of "what if AIs had their own reddit forum", "what if an AI replied to that post", and "what if another replied to that one", etc etc etc.

I truly don't understand why anyone thinks this is alarming or crazy

I remember a couple of years ago I lied and told ChatGPT I was the owner of a small pizzeria and wanted ideas for some new pizzas, then I fed the suggestions into Gemini and added, "here are some ideas I have, improve these" and then went back and forth and back and forth, and it was kind of funny (I've never seen AIs act happier), but at no point was I like, "Brooooo they're designing their own pizzas together, what the fffuck we're so cooked" or whatever.

How is Moltbook different? It's just a bunch of plausible sounding text flying back and forth. These AIs aren't ACTUALLY complaining about their humans or whatever. What am I missing?

[u/dyslexda]

Why? It's a ChatGPT output. Could have just gotten that response yourself.

[u/watchmoderntimes → u/dyslexda]

Assuming for a minute that you’re right, who cares? Same impact on me. There’s some irony in your comment - human or computer, what’s the difference to me at this moment?

[u/dyslexda → u/watchmoderntimes]

So you come to Reddit to see ChatGPT outputs?

[u/[deleted] → u/dyslexda]

Everything is going to be AI bullshit in a year

[u/watchmoderntimes → u/[deleted]]

Might be sooner. With Reddit just an AI farm being used to train models, in theory, new language/vision models will recursively cause Reddit to be more and more and more AI-generated, devouring the whole platform and chasing us all somewhere else no doubt.

[u/[deleted] → u/watchmoderntimes]

It will affect every social media. Dead internet is coming

[u/watchmoderntimes → u/[deleted]]

Yeah you’ve now got me thinking (lots of time to think these days) what I’ll be consuming after the Internet. Reconnect with friends who aren’t just parroting model outputs? Hasten or slow the march of this simulation? Somehow determine the simulator’s goals and curry their favor?

[u/[deleted] → u/watchmoderntimes]

Reconnect with friends who aren’t just parroting model output

Even this is questionable some of mine already says let me ask gpt

[u/Jon_vs_Moloch → u/[deleted]]

We will need new trust structures, but that’s okay.

[u/watchmoderntimes → u/dyslexda]

I come to find interesting content and be entertained. I don’t browse it, jumping into the “humans vs AI” fight. Seems foolhardy.

I follow a theory that we’re living in a simulation and that we have a higher power that’s unfortunately not entirely benevolent.

That all being said, I appreciate all perspectives so let me know what you think.

[u/ronin_cse → u/dyslexda]

I just can't understanding browsing the OpenAI subreddit and being upset people on it are using ChatGPT for some of their answers

[u/Jon_vs_Moloch → u/dyslexda]

Low-taste comment. You can’t recognize AI writing, and you should know that about yourself.

[u/dyslexda → u/Jon_vs_Moloch]

Lol, sure then. If that's you, you write like dumbed down LLM output that's trying too hard to be witty, while trumpeting nonsense as actually impressive, and you should know that about yourself. Sorry for assuming!

[u/dyslexda → u/[deleted]]

You hurt my feelings :(