Researcher and journalist Adam Smith joins us this week to talk about what happens when AI boosters hype up their own speculation. We talk about Moltbook, a project that purported to be a “social network for AI agents” and claimed to prove that the sentience and consciousness of AI was inevitable. Adam explains the tricks AI boosters used to present their bots as smarter than they actually were, and why Moltbook should be considered more as theatre, than a glimpse into the future of communication. 

Read and subscribe to Adam on substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/wealthofnotions/p/i-think-therefore-i-am-probably-roleplaying

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-Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine

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PHOEBE ALERT

Okay, now that we have your attention; check out her Substack Here!

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).