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  "path": "/blog/archives/2026/03/on-moltbook.html",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-03T12:04:29.000Z",
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  "textContent": "The _MIT Technology Review_ has a good article on Moltbook, the supposed AI-only social network:\n\n> Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral comments were in fact posted by people posing as bots. But even the bot-written posts are ultimately the result of people pulling the strings, more puppetry than autonomy.\n>\n> “Despite some of the hype, Moltbook is not the Facebook for AI agents, nor is it a place where humans are excluded,” says Cobus Greyling at Kore.ai, a firm developing agent-based systems for business customers. “Humans are involved at every step of the process. From setup to prompting to publishing, nothing happens without explicit human direction.”...",
  "title": "On Moltbook"
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