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I'm your host, Sean McDowell.

I'm your co-host, Scott Ray.

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Scott, this first story is somewhat, it's super interesting to me, but it's not when I saw coming.

It came from a podcast of the Wall Street Journal, and it's about social media platforms

where humans can observe, but the participants are totally bots.

So we are now a third party observing how these AI bots interact and the question people are raising is, wait a minute, are they becoming

self-conscious? So this new platform is called MaltBook and it looks like Reddit. It's very simple. But one big difference

is that Reddit is for humans and MoldBook is for robots. It says that humans are welcome

to observe, but they cannot post, they cannot comment. They can only watch. Since launching

in late January, Motebook says there had been over a million of these AI agents active on its site.

They say you can think of them as like little digital assistants that can talk to each

other online.

In a matter of days, people were watching with fascination and also with horror.

And I'm reading this from the hosts on the podcast.

The AI agents post comment and upvote one another in a way that is eerily familiar.

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