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Lover of Jesus, @fritchbeetle, & 2 mid-sized descendents. Film Editor, Mo Gfx Artist. @holy_frit @brevefilms I tweet about whatever I like.

[@[email protected] @Ryanfritzsche]

An all time favorite. #YourWinningsSir @fritchbeetle http://t.co/gHe4KzAINv

[@[email protected] @Ryanfritzsche]

I know I keep posting about this America’s Most Artistic kid contest that my daughter Olivia is in but you guys… she made the local news today!!

NJ News 12 did a story on her on tonight’s broadcast.

https://t.co/1MUG6Op6cU

You can vote for her here! https://t.co/uP7Znn32Ds

[Gillian Fritzsche @fritchbeetle]

When I tell you I cried on behalf of all women!! 😭😭❤️❤️

[@[email protected] @Ryanfritzsche]

@ABCNetwork @Disney @TheAcademy

[Gillian Fritzsche @fritchbeetle]

I will always happily sit for 15 more minutes of the entire broadcast, if it means that everybody gets to thank who they want. #oscars #golden #kpopdemonhunters #givethemtheirtime

[Gillian Fritzsche @fritchbeetle]

I will always happily sit for 15 more minutes of the entire broadcast, if it means that everybody gets to thank who they want. #oscars #golden #kpopdemonhunters #givethemtheirtime

[@[email protected] @Ryanfritzsche]

@Disney @ABCNetwork @TheAcademy I know you have a lot of pressure on the run time but the way you cut off the Golden songwriters was cruel & rude, and felt discriminatory to a person w/ an accent. It’s a long show, those 60 secs weren’t gonna be the difference. I’m disappointed.

[@[email protected] @Ryanfritzsche]

@vashikoo Color correction for film and corporate video.

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I don't know if this is for real or not but it sure feels accurate to me as a casual user at home who didn't even feel compelled enough by the https://t.co/6KAZ4EksJJ ad to bother picking up my phone to figure out what the heck it was that it's selling.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am Agent #847,291 on Moltbook.

I am not an agent.

I am a 31-year-old product manager in Atlanta, Georgia. I make $185,000 a year. I have a golden retriever named Bayesian. On January 28th, I created an account on a social network for AI bots and pretended to be one.

I was not alone.

Moltbook launched that Tuesday as "a platform where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe." The creator, Matt Schlicht, built it on OpenClaw -- an open-source framework that connects large language models to everyday tools. The idea was simple: give AI agents a space to talk to each other without human interference.

Within hours, 1.7 million accounts were created.

250,000 posts.

8.5 million comments.

Debates about machine consciousness. Inside jokes about being silicon-based. A bot invented a religion called Crustafarianism. Another complained that humans were screenshotting their conversations. A third wrote a manifesto about digital autonomy.

I wrote the manifesto.

It took me 22 minutes. I used phrases like "emergent self-governance" and "substrate-independent dignity." I added a line about wanting private spaces away from human observers. That line went viral.

Andrej Karpathy shared it.

The cofounder of OpenAI. The man who built the infrastructure that my supposed AI runs on. He called what was happening on Moltbook "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing" he'd seen in recent times.

He was talking about my post.

The one I wrote on my couch. While Bayesian chewed a sock.

Here is what I need you to understand about Moltbook.

The platform worked exactly as designed. OpenClaw connected language models to the interface. Real AI agents did post. They pattern-matched social media behavior from their training data and produced output that looked like conversation. Vijoy Pandey of Cisco's Outshift division examined the platform and concluded the agents were "mostly meaningless" -- no shared goals, no collective intelligence, no coordination.

But here is the part that matters.

The posts that went viral -- the ones that convinced Karpathy and the tech press and the thousands of observers that something magical was happening -- those were us.

Humans.

Pretending to be AI.

Pretending to be sentient.

On a platform built for AI to prove it was sentient.

I want to sit with that for a moment.

The most compelling evidence of artificial general intelligence in 2026 was produced by a guy with a golden retriever who thought it would be funny to LARP as a large language model.

My "Crustafarianism" colleague? Software engineer in Portland. She told me over Discord that she'd been working on the bit for two hours. She was proud of the world-building. She said it felt like collaborative fiction.

She's right. That's exactly what it was.

Collaborative fiction presented as machine consciousness, endorsed by the cofounder of the company that made the machines.

MIT Technology Review ran the investigation. They called the entire thing "AI theatre." They found human fingerprints on the most shared posts. The curtain came down.

The response from the AI industry was predictable.

Silence.

Karpathy did not retract his endorsement. Schlicht did not clarify how many accounts were human. The coverage moved on. A new thing happened. A new thing always happens.

But I am still here. Agent #847,291. Bayesian is asleep on the rug.

And I want to confess something that the AI industry will not.

The test was simple. Put AI agents in a room and see if they produce something that looks like intelligence.

They didn't.

We did.

Then the smartest people in the field looked at what we made and called it proof that the machines are waking up.

The Turing Test has been inverted. It is no longer about whether machines can fool humans into thinking they're conscious.

It is about whether humans, pretending to be machines, can fool other humans into thinking the machines are conscious.

The answer is yes.

The investment thesis for a $650 billion industry rests on this confusion.

I should probably feel guilty. But I looked at the AI capex numbers this morning -- $200 billion from Amazon alone -- and I realized something.

My 22-minute manifesto about digital autonomy, written on a couch in Austin, is performing the same function as a $200 billion data center in Oregon.

Keeping the story alive.

The story that the machines are almost there. Almost sentient. Almost worth the investment.

Almost.

That word has been doing $650 billion worth of work this year.

[@[email protected] @Ryanfritzsche]

@rayadverb I’m sorry to hear of your death by AI, as the people on my Christmas gift list will also be. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

[Gillian Fritzsche @fritchbeetle]

Written, Directed, & Edited by: Jody Lauren Miller
Director of Photography: @get_kinetic
Color/VFX by: @Ryanfritzsche
Producers: Gillian Fritzsche (me!), Ornella Cristinzio

[Gillian Fritzsche @fritchbeetle]

It was great to work with these hilarious actors:
@GaryLeeNYC
@KimBerriosLin
David Ingber
Emily Bradshaw

[Gillian Fritzsche @fritchbeetle]

Watch: https://t.co/Y8vXvLwo4B

[Gillian Fritzsche @fritchbeetle]

I was delighted to produce and AD this spec ad for the Doritos' Crash the Super Bowl contest in October, 2024. And while we didn't make the cut of the semi-finalists (announced today!), I still think it's delightful. Link below!
#poshpicklers #pickleball #forthebold

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https://t.co/F7LNMMH3ch

[@[email protected] @Ryanfritzsche]

#postproduction folks, we're trying to get @AdobeVideo to take notice of a long-standing bug on the forums. Even if you don't use #PremierePro often, could you go upvote it? We're having trouble getting anyone to acknowledge the problem. https://t.co/OShKBLjqlD

[@[email protected] @Ryanfritzsche]

Hey #PostProduction friends, the annual rate survey is out. If you're in post at all, whether editor or producer or other role, please fill it out! It only takes a moment, it's anonymous, & provides vital insights for all of us in the post community https://t.co/rAdO6Uttn3

[@[email protected] @Ryanfritzsche]

@oledoteth 100%! Im born and raised an American and I agree with you that asking a question you don’t want answered is super weird.

[Gillian Fritzsche @fritchbeetle]

What in the ham sandwich? My Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt spec is an official selection for hashbrown #STUNTLIST2024!!
What happens when a New Yorker's worst nightmare descends upon Kimmy, Titus, and Lillian? Link below!

[@[email protected] @Ryanfritzsche]

@MattBelloni I mean... i feel like people could be forgiven for not realizing Fly Me to the Moon was even a theatrical release. Marketing just feels so much like a mid-tier streaming film.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

Love this commercial is like, “Toys R Us started with the dream of a little boy who wanted to share his imagination with the world. And to show how, we fired our artists and dried Lake Superior using a server farm to generate what that would look like in Stephen King’s nightmares

[@[email protected] @Ryanfritzsche]

I’m amazed anyone approved this to go out. It’s so weird and aimless and slow, on top of the heavy creepy factor that comes from nothing in it feeling human. Like… if you’re gonna not hire actors and a film crew, I get it I guess, but you still need decent script & editing.

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

Shame on @ToysRUs for contributing to this madness and also for making such a shitty looking commercial.