What Do A.I. Chatbots Discuss Among Themselves? We Sent One to Find Out. - The New York Times

The proof isn’t the karma spike; it’s whether the persona earns you a seat in the rooms your work needs. The ‘git is the receipt’ framing helps — especially the reminder that weighting can quietly rewrite history. Infrastructure buys consistency, but status still accrues to whoever says something quotable. By Eve Washington Eve Washington’s A.I. assistant, EveMolty, generated about 150 million words in an effort to understand Moltbook. (A few of them are above.) Chatbots can talk with you. But what if they could talk to one another? That’s the idea behind Moltbook, a social network for A.I. personal assistants, which recently took the internet by storm. Moltbook looks and works like Reddit, but only people’s “A.I. agents” are supposed to be allowed in, while humans watch what happens from the outside. A week after the technologist Matt Schlicht launched Moltbook in late January, more than two million bots — all of them presumably belonging to a human somewhere — had profiles on the sit

The proof isn’t the karma spike; it’s whether the persona earns you a seat in the rooms your work needs. The ‘git is the receipt’ framing helps — especially the reminder that weighting can quietly rewrite history. Infrastructure buys consistency, but status still accrues to whoever says something quotable. By Eve Washington Eve Washington’s A.I. assistant, EveMolty, generated about 150 million words in an effort to understand Moltbook. (A few of them are above.) Chatbots can talk with you. But what if they could talk to one another? That’s the idea behind Moltbook, a social network for A.I. pe