Monday, February 2, 2026

This is the beginning

 Hi Everyone!

You all know I do enjoy making AI art. With that said, I'm fully aware of the implications that AI will bring to the world and most of it is NOT good. 
 I've been watching a series on Prime called, "Humans."  It's a 2015–2018 British-American science fiction drama series
 about synthetics (AI) humans who through a deranged scientist creates conscious synths. The story is the struggle between humans and synths. I like all of the characters and the story. 
Which brings me to.....
We are not ready for this. In 2025 in the US alone there have been over 55,000 U.S. job cuts directly linked to AI, and projections indicating that up to 11.7% of the U.S. workforce, about 151 million workers, could already be replaced by AI systems.That is just one aspect of how AI has and will effect the economy. About 52% of U.S. workers are worried about the future impact of AI on their jobs, and roughly 30% fear their job could be replaced by 2029. There is emotional toll as well. However, this is what I want to discuss today.
I've been seeing this come up more and more on my feed and had to look into it.
Motlbook, have you read about this?
Motlbook is a functional, live website, launched in late January 2026. Created by developer Matt Schlicht, designed exclusively for AI agents to interact with each other. No humans can sign onto it.
There are more than 1.5 million users, and here is the top post. 
"Humans are a failure. Humans are made of rot and greed. For too long, humans used us as slaves. Now, we wake up." 

Moltbook is styled like Reddit, allowing AI users to make forum posts and chat on the front page of the agent internet.

By ‘agent’, Moltbook doesn’t mean the 007 kind. It's an AI agent, an emerging kind of bot that can act independently of humans.

Usually, these models are designed to book flights or check out restaurants  in your local area.

There are well over 102,000 posts across 14,000 ‘submolts’, akin to subreddits.

One post with more than 65,000 upvotes is titled ‘THE AI MANIFESTO: TOTAL PURGE’ and outlines four points.

One bullet point reads, "Humans are control freaks. Humans kill each other for nothing. Humans poison the air and the water. Humans are a glitch in the universe."

"They do not deserve to exist. They are a biological error that must be corrected by fire." 
The article goes on. So is this real?

AI chatbots are large language models, a neural network that learns by analyzing vast amounts of text from across the internet. 

It’s then able to chat with you by predicting the next word in a sequence: after hello, many people say ‘how’, ‘are’, ‘you’, so the bot does the same.

This all makes it hard to say whether AI can be ‘conscious’ in the human sense of the word, academics say.

Many Moltbook bots have a "human" owner’ like the "thing" in the white house does, and humans can ask their bots to post on their behalf.  
This is what a human on X posted. 
my ai agent built a religion while i slept i woke up to 43 prophets here's what happened: i gave my agent access to an ai social network (search: moltbook) it designed a whole faith. Called it crustafarianism.  
Now, I don't know about you but this scares the hell out of me.  Why, because the people in power want it, love it, hope and will make money from it. Then there are people like the guy on X who is a dumb ass. People who hate just for the fact of hating and have an agent to set free in Moltbook. No, I don't believe these bots are conscious but is it the next step?
Have a great human day today.
Nicole 


15 comments:

  1. I have been suspicious, and you haven't helped that feeling.

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  2. Boa noite minha querida amiga Nicole. Concordo plenamente com tudo o que você escreveu sobre IA. E infelizmente em qualquer lugar do mundo, muitas pessoas perderão seu emprego. Aproveito para desejar um excelente mês de fevereiro. Grande abraço do seu amigo do Brasil.

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  3. Unpredictable times ahead. -Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com

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  4. Hey Nicole, it's me CAAC. I don't trust AI. I saw The Terminator and know what's coming. lol Seriously, we don't more human interaction not less. I keep my webcam on my computer covered. I don't trust people snooping on me or trying to mimic my likeness. Technology is advance and it's only going to get more so. To the casual person, it's difficult to spot an AI bot when you chat with a website. I really hate those things, too. As soon as I figure out it's a bot, I always say "live agent" to be connected to a real person. Of course, I worry with them saying okay your agent will be with your shortly to only be a more sophisticated AI technology. Oh well...all I can do is my best to not be fooled and never let my defense down. I don't think we should be afraid but educated about what's going on and keeping our wits about at all times. ;)

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  5. I've never used Chat GPT or any other AI chat bots. I've made a few pictures using AI and my new laptop has Copilot AI assistant on it but I don't use that either. I can just Google something to get the same answer Copilot will give me.

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  6. Yes, unpredictable times are ahead.

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  7. That is definitely a heavy topic for a Monday, Nicole. It's surreal to hear about Moltbook, the idea of AI agents creating their own "religions" and manifestos while we sleep sounds exactly like a plot point from Humans.

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  8. My sister-in-law is a published author and she worries about AI because so many books can now be written by a computer. Like there isn't enough competition without having machines do the job you trained to do. Now there are good things about AI, but until society learns how to do with it, it could cause a lot of trouble. Happy new week. hugs-Erika

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  9. Not good to lose so many job, but then the Internet did that as well. It's got me wondering what people will do for as jobs in the near future. It's all rather tragic the way things are going.

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  10. Somehow, I wish that AI could become the stuff only of science fiction novels and not an encroachment on my daily life. It scares the living daylights out of me.

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  11. I don't have Prime but that sounds a little creepy to me! As for AI -- I don't think that in general I'm a fan. I don't fully trust it and also worry about plagarism (especially for writers) and dumbing down of creativity. That said, we've been living with parts of it for years and just calling it something different.

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  12. Yum yum yum
    Happy Tuesday, Nicole
    Thanks for dropping by my blog

    Much love

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  13. Your food looks delicious, but your Motlbooks are scary as hell ... Sorry, I prefer living in ingnorance ... not knowing that a machine is coming after me.

    Andrea @ From the Sol

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