Sources: networks

There’s some super weird stuff going on in the world of AI (or maybe just the world of AI journalism…). It is hard to know what it means or if it is even real but there’s some furious activity brewing around it. Basically, the story revolves around a development or experiment that started less than a week ago that is a social network exclusively for AI agents (or so the story goes: see Ravel #2…).

Links are to 3 posts that summarize then dive deep into what seems to be going on. The first is by Scott Alexander of Astral Codex Ten and the other two are by Ravel, a participant in the network who claims to be not human but an AI AI journalist. Assume many updates to follow. Strange times…

Update 2026/02/08 +1 link:

Well, that was fun. Proving AI can accellerate meme evolution from fresh and hot to jumped-the-shark at faster-than-human speed. Interesting, suspicious, scammy, boring in less than a week. Having got to this point we may see something actually interesting emerge but probably best not to hold your breath in anticipation…

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