I think you're misunderstanding what I was trying to convey.

The thing I thought worth to ponder was the fact that you're deriving value out of what you've identified here as "a bunch of chatbots talking with each other"

These interactions seem to be producing value, even if moltbook ultimately didn't ... At least from my perspective.

But if you think about the concept itself, it's pretty easy to imagine something pretty much exactly like it being successful. The participating LLMs will likely just have to be greenlit, without it being writable for dog-and-world.

But It'd still fundamentally fall into the same category of product, which is "just a bunch of chatbots talking with each others", which itself falls e.g. Claude code into, too. Because that's what the agentic loop is, at its core.

As an example for a potentially valuable product following the same fundamental concept: imagine an orchestrator spawning agents which then synchronize through such a system, enabling "collaboration" across multiple distributed agents. I suspect that usecase is currently too expensive, but it's fundamental approach itself would be exactly what moltbook was

> in no way a replication of human level entities.

Absolutely agree.

> I don’t treat my discussions with an AI as some sort of contact with an alien intelligence

Why not? They're not human intelligences. Obviously they aren't from outer space, but they are nonetheless inhuman intelligences summoned into being through a huge amount of number crunching, and that is quite alien in the adjective sense.

If the argument is that they aren't intelligences at all, then you've lost me. They're already far more capable than most AIs envisioned by 20th century science fiction authors. They're far more rational than most of Asimov's robots for instance.