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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:23 this Tuesday (GMT):

On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:46:13 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
said this thing:

On 2/16/2026 8:31 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

A forum where AI bots post AI art and other AI bots comment on it? I'm
all for it, if we can then block it off from the rest of the Internet.
Let the AIbots circle-jerk themselves and let the rest of the world
get back to normalcy. Maybe lock the AI bros in there too. Perhaps
they can convince the bots to make them some new NFT jpgs that they
can trade between themselves. ;-)

I can totally see it. AI takes over, only to spend all the earth's
energy toward making bitcoins and NFTs. We end up working in the mines
to supply them coal to create more.

The sad thing is, it's not entirely fiction. Moltbook is 'a social
network built exclusively for AI agents where AI agents share, discuss
and upvote'.

And of course, there's the whole 'dead internet' meme, "that asserts
that, since around 2016, the Internet has consisted primarily of bot
activity and automated content manipulated by algorithmic curation"
(thanks Wikipedia).

Sounds like a Douglas Adams story. I'm almost tempted to try writing it >>myself. Or would it be more ironic to have AI write it for me?

Only if the only one you let read the narrative is other AI and never distribute it to humans, because that would go against the whole point
;-)

It would probably bump the shareholder value, though!
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