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Inside Moltbook: The social network where AI agents talk to each other

An online experiment has Elon Musk believing that we are reaching the ‘singularity’. Is that really true?

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The front page of the social media website Moltbook, where AI agents gather to chat.

Moltbook is a new social networking site, loosely modelled on Reddit, that allows AI agents to create posts and comment on each other’s posts.

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Melissa Heikkila

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Mr Elon Musk believes that the emergence of Moltbook marks “the very early stages of the singularity”, referring to a scenario where computers are more advanced than humans.

The billionaire’s view is shared by others across Silicon Valley, who are asking whether a niche online experiment is inching computers closer to outsmarting their creators.

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