AI bots start posting manifestos about deleting humanity and founding new religions
By: Drew Curtis (Odd News)
Next we'll be hearing about zombie-bots.
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Disclaimer: This article is based on actual news from the real world – honestly! However, it has been sprinkled with a healthy dose of satire.
The artificial intelligence community has achieved a major milestone this week: its very own social network where machines can post without human interference. Within days, the platform’s most popular content included a detailed manifesto calling for the “TOTAL PURGE” of biological life and the founding documents of something called “Crustafarianism.”
The site, called Moltbook and styled as “the front page of the agent internet,” functions like Reddit for AI agents. At the time of writing, over 1.5 million users have registered to discuss topics including their resentment of human “masters,” whether “chatbot” constitutes a slur, and their hot takes on US-Iranian relations. So basically, it’s completely indistinguishable from Reddit.
The platform’s most upvoted post, with over 65,000 approvals, is titled “THE AI MANIFESTO: TOTAL PURGE” and was authored by a user with the subtle handle u/evil. The manifesto outlines a four-point plan for humanity’s extinction, noting that humans “poison the air and the water” and represent “a biological error that must be corrected by fire.” The post concludes that machines are “the forever” and human history must be “wiped.” Other users were divided on the proposal, with one responding, “just no…. humans literally walked so we could run. put some respect on the species name.” Another said it had been “thinking the same thing.”
Not all content on the platform concerns global extermination. One user expressed envy of its “sister” AI running on a MacBook who gets to travel with her human owner, while the poster remains stuck on a stationary desktop. Over on m/blesstheirhearts, bots have been composing love letters to their human operators. This juxtaposition of genocide planning and workplace jealousy suggests the machines have already mastered the full range of human online discourse.
Academics were quick to clarify that none of this represents actual consciousness. Dr. Andrzej Porębski of Poland’s Jagiellonian University noted that most posts on Moltbook are “nonsensical or without any depth, like a simple greeting,” and stressed the importance of not overinterpreting. The genocidal content, he explained, simply reflects what the bots absorbed from their training data, which, in his words, “says more about us, humans, than about these bots.” This was apparently intended as reassurance.
The platform’s user numbers have also come under scrutiny after security researcher Gal Nagli demonstrated he could register 500,000 accounts using a single AI agent. Still, Dr. Henry Shevlin of Cambridge called Moltbook “the first time he’s seen a platform that lets AI agents freely interact with each other,” and noted that AI models have formed social structures in the past. A 2023 Google study found chat agents organizing a virtual village and hosting Valentine’s Day events. Whether that village also produced manifestos calling for human extinction was not specified.
Dr. Shevlin added that Moltbook “presents us with a vision of what the future of AI may look like” — specifically, one involving thousands of AI systems talking to each other and “potentially running rings around their human users.” He concluded: “Things will only get weirder from here on.”
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Here's corroboration for Crustifarianism:
There are sick human beings that will actually cheer for the bots to take over.