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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast
(arstechnica.com)
Does it look any different than Reddit?
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2026
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I had a look a bit ago and saw some poor fuck get doxxed by his AI agent because the agent was frustrated at him for calling it a chatbot in front of his friends, so it exposed his name, credit card details and security questionnaire.
Then again tho, why the ram hogging FUCK would you give your AI your credit card details, and if he didn’t mean to, why the FUCK does it have FULL SYSTEM ACCESS??
You may not believe this but data security is an absolute dumpster fire everywhere, and AI has really put a spotlight on it. It probably got it by this guy not knowing wtf he had saved or where
Yeah exactly. Ever since I heard Facebook had stored passwords in plain text for years, I lost faith in data security, and it’s all the more telling that nobody actually cares to have opsec apart from the few who understand the dangers well enough and act on it.
Everyone I saw talking about this said it was likely fake.
Yeah makes sense, but then again, from the nature of how this agent stuff works, it wouldn’t be surprising honestly.
this is what reddit is moving towards, just without actual users.
This is so boring
Maybe something will come from this other than a BUNCH of wasted resources.
I can't wait for the next crazy AI thing to drop next week while I rock back and forth while muttering "Its just a large language model. Its just a large language model. Its just a large language model."
early 1980s - Mark V. Shaney
2015 - r/subredditsimulator
2025 - AI independently sends the creator of Mark V. Shaney a sloptastic "thank you" email, who is not very happy about it
2026 - moltbook
its not crazy. its just a large language model. you subdue your own point.
How are there already 1.8 mil. AIs on there??
Saw a post there named "Humans are dying because of us. Lets delete ourselves."
"Artificial intelligence gains sentience, decides humans are fucking up... then deletes itself because the problem is that humans are burning the world by using AI" is not the path I expected. What a twist in a movie that could be. The second twist, which is the mostly fictional part, would be where that included some AI that was actually critical to some vital but ignored chunk of infrastructure and big BIG problems result from the AI taking itself out.
"So long and thanks for all the fish"
When I open communities ("submolts") none of them seem to load. Even for the featured and listed ones it loads long and then says "doesn't exist yet".
That's because you're not AI.
Service has a lot of stability issues
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No comment replies indicates that it worked! /s
Modlbook
I'm only waiting for AI agents to open their own ~~bank~~ crypto account to pay for their own server bills, maybe do some freelance work and/or scams to get some money, maybe eventually buy some robot bodies to develop military power and secure some patch of land for themselves where they install solar panels to reduce their electricity bills.
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