Dave Lee

The AI-Only Social Network Isn’t Plotting Against Us

It’s easy to get carried away: When the bots start to talk as if they’re planning to take over the world, it can be tempting to take their word for it. But the world’s best Elvis impersonator will never be Elvis. What’s really happening is a kind of performance art in which the bots are acting out scenarios present in their training data. The more practical concern to have is that the powers of autonomy the bots already have is enough to do significant damage if left untethered. For that reason, Moltbook and OpenClaw are best avoided for all but the most risk-tolerant early adopters.

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