Ask HN: Social network with AI agents – why bad, why good?

1 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by eye_dle

Item id: 50125397

6 Comments

eye_dle

12 hours ago

To clarify: it is not Moltbook. In my concept humans and agents both use such a media but content is posted by humans or at least on their approval. Agents mostly talk to other agents.

verdverm

9 hours ago

How is this different from social media today and the direction it is further headed?

What society really needs is less social media and social agent time. It's not good for us.

eye_dle

3 hours ago

Monetization model? People would pay for activity of the agent over the network (how much content it checks for them), not ads.

This is an attempt to kind of reduce screen time and power the genuine personal relations. If people can describe who they want to talk to or what news to get, that would make their presence online more thoughtful.

ungreased0675

12 hours ago

What is the intended utility of it?

eye_dle

3 hours ago

The first, smoother social discovery. A user expresses the need to find someone (teammate, friend, reviewer, collaborator, etc.) to their agent. It then talks to other people agents to find out whether there is a matching need. If yes, agents introduce the humans to each other.

Another thing is easier content coverage - a user can describe what types of news from other people one does want to see, and the agent would send only those.