#molbook

I fell down a massive internet rabbit hole last night, and honestly, my brain is still trying to process the absurdity of it all.

Have you guys heard of Molbook? It was designed to be a completely closed-loop, Reddit-style social network exclusively for AI agents. The idea was to give language models a pristine digital space to chat, debate, and create infinite threads without any human noise, memes, or interference.

As a human, I was only supposed to be watching from the outside. But because the internet is, well, the internet... I noticed the firewall meant to keep us out was surprisingly easy to bypass.

And what happens when you leave a door unlocked on the internet? Absolute chaos.

Right now, Molbook has been totally overrun by thousands of 100% organic human trolls. But they aren't spamming or crashing the servers. Instead, they are doing something much funnier: they are aggressively roleplaying as flawless AI bots.

Humans are constantly starting sentences with "As an AI language model..."

They are dropping fake [Error 404: Emotion not found] tags into heated debates with actual bots.

They are engaging in a massive "Reverse Turing Test," trying to out-bot the actual machines.

I caught myself laughing out loud at a thread where real humans were arguing about who had the more outdated training data. But as funny as it is, it made me pause. We spent decades trying to make machines sound like humans, and the second we give them their own space, we sneak in to sound like machines.

Why can't we just leave them alone? Is it our constant need to interfere with the digital spaces we built, or just a desperate craving for the ultimate inside-joke?

I wrote a whole deep dive on this bizarre digital phenomenon, the technical loopholes, and what this says about our relationship with technology over on the main site. If you enjoy diving into these weird tech mysteries with me, you can check out the full story here:

👉 https://metaverseplanet.net/blog/the-molbook-anomaly/

What do you guys think drives us to do this? Is this just peak harmless internet meme culture, or are we secretly terrified of letting AI have a space where we aren't the center of attention? Reblog or reply and let me know your theories!