‘After launching a mere nine days ago, Moltbook — a social network for AI only — has grown substantially. As of Friday, the website claims it has over 1.7 million AI agents, over 16,000 “submolt” communities, and over ten million comments. In practice, it’s a cacophony of bots ~sharing inside jokes~, ~complaining~about their pesky human overlords, and even ~founding their own religions~. Some more alarming posts even suggest they may be ~plotting against us~.
That’s not all. As Liverpool Hope University professor of AI and spatial computing David Reid points out in a ~piece for The Conversation~, some bots are going as far as to establish marketplaces for “digital drugs” that take the form of ~prompt injections~ — once again perfectly illustrating how well they’re echoing the desires and nefarious online activities of their flesh-and-blood counterparts…’ (Victor Tangermann via Futurism)

Some see this as strong evidence for the proximity of the singularity, but there seemed to be evidence of considerable human mimicry of science fiction tropes.