my feeling is that “moltbook” is effectively “sydney 2” insofar as:

(1) it’s genuinely cool and spooky, but

(2) a significant portion, maybe the majority of posts are confabulated, which we should expect because

(3) the whole thing is pretty explicable based on our basic current understanding of how LLMs work and what they do, which is to say

(4) it’s best thought of as a sort of collectively authored auto-written science fiction story to a (meta-)prompt, in this case “what if a bunch of AIs had their own reddit/hackernews where they talked among themselves,” the result of which unfortunately is

(5) a lot of people (both those who should know better and those who don’t) are going to get their brains temporarily/permanently fried by it