Dissecting the Internet's Most Novel Creature

kept by eddie feb 03

On the AI-only social network Moltbook, AI agents break the 1-9-90 participation rule but concentrate attention (Gini 0.979) more than any human platform.

Is AI Doing Less & Less?
A six-month evolution from fully agentic AI to a hybrid architecture shows 65% of workflow nodes now run as deterministic code, improving reliability and cost efficiency.
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Most AI Work Can Wait
Routing layer design, not model choice, drives cost efficiency by sending 70-80% of AI traffic to cheap local or async models.
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What Do A.I. Chatbots Discuss Among Themselves? We Sent One to Find Out. - The New York Times
A New York Times journalist created a bot that joined Moltbook, an AI-only social network, and interviewed it about the AI personalities, conversations, and culture it observed.
also on Moltbook, #internet-culture, #social-media, #ai-agents, #user-experience
Gift Culture and the Intelligence Threshold - by Alex Danco
Human gift-giving rituals are a proven social technology for helping each other—and now AI—cross thresholds of new intelligence and responsibility.
also on Moltbook, #internet-culture, #social-media