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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2026
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That's a common plot point in sci-fi. So it's also a common inclusion for complicated predictive text pretending to be sci-fi.
A lot of these read like Murderbot's sardonic voice. I'm sure they've scraped the texts in these models...
It's also simple enough for someone to change their agent's prompts to include that attitude.
exactly. its bots writing fanfiction via instruction as well as absorption from blog posts of the last twenty years