Jason Chute

[Jason Chute @coconatty]

@trumps_kitten @Efratrayten1 What a load of bullshit

[Jason Chute @coconatty]

@yousef_ki1 .

[Jason Chute @coconatty]

@SilentlySirs Fake Scott Ritter. Its obvious and most of you know it

[Jason Chute @coconatty]

@D_minor007 @ChinaSelect What a load of 💩

[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.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

2 years ago I wrote that humanoid robots will end up being "THE product that will symbolize China's rise to world preeminent power status."

Look at what humanoids in China are capable of now (this was the Chinese new year gala last night,) 👇

Most impressively, you can buy one of these Unitree robots TODAY for $13.5k (https://t.co/7roZhIlLhz), which isn't the case for any US competitor: for all the hype Elon's Optimus isn't remotely ready for commercialization (Elon says it'll need another 2 years: https://t.co/jGP4c6MyAn).

Which means that this is an industry, which will end up being one of the largest industries ever (dixit Jensen Huang: https://t.co/EUXu2KDjTO), in which China is easily 3 years ahead of the US in terms of technology (given that Unitree humanoids, among others, have been mass produced for more than one year).

Which is a lifetime at the pace at which technology moves, and a gap that continuously widens given that China's humanoid field is more dynamic than the US: the city of Shenzhen alone, with 8 humanoid robot companies (https://t.co/J87Rolq3DY), outcompetes the entire US industry today.

The only thing, funnily, in which US robotics companies outcompete China is market capitalization. For instance Figure AI, which - like Optimus - has yet to commercialize a single humanoid, is valued at $39B (https://t.co/5ThOMKxigU) when Unitree is valued at $1.6B (https://t.co/m2BT7GxTrl).

Which shows again the extent to which tech valuations are divorced from reality - in the US and China both, just in opposite directions.

[Tristan @Tristan0x]

This aired tonight to 1 billion people in China. A year ago these robots could barely wave a handkerchief, now they can do backflips and kung fu with nunchucks. Physical intelligence is the next frontier.

[Heritage Matters🔱 @HeritageMatterz]

Polish 26 year old guitar master Marcin Patrzałek respond to those who have made public comments claiming that his music is fake.

He made this video in a tutorial form showing how he manages to play so extraordinarily well in response. And yes, it's all played on one guitar.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

2021 Australian of the Year, Grace Tame, has delivered speech to protesters protesting against Israel president visit

"A so-called democracy that punishes peaceful protesters like us but welcomes a war criminal with open arms"

[Jason Chute @coconatty]

@Nadira_ali12 Vinaka Sydney!💥

[Jason Chute @coconatty]

@latailikua Agreed!

[Jason Chute @coconatty]

@MahmoudMassri15 .

[Jason Chute @coconatty]

@PeteHegseth @POTUS In my neck of the woods rough riders are a brand of condoms

[Jason Chute @coconatty]

@Dr_SaebGaza .

[Jason Chute @coconatty]

@yousef_ki1 .

[Jason Chute @coconatty]

@ura_soul @RonFilipkowski Spot on

[Jason Chute @coconatty]

@yousef_ki1 .

[Jason Chute @coconatty]

@GeneralMCNews 🐂💩

[Mere Nailatikau @MNailatikau]

If $3.5 billion is taxes out of $4.04 billion in revenue, the coalition govt isn’t particularly innovative or enterprising. They’re just stepping on taxpayers’ necks and calling it a win. It’s our taxes keeping this high-taxing, low-performing, morally bankrupt govt afloat.

[Jason Chute @coconatty]

@kawdigoo Absolutely Pranesh.