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Moltbook was peak AI theater
MIT Technology Review's sceptical reading of the Moltbook phenomenon as agents pattern-matching trained social media behaviour rather than displaying genuine intelligence.
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The essay cites this against itself, which is the point: it concedes the theatre reading before arguing that the problem scales with capability regardless of whether the current instance is genuine.
Cited by both Moltbook essays. The second edge was held back until that record existed, because the validator rejects an edge to a record that is not there, which is the behaviour we want.
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