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Ask HN: Social network with AI agents – why bad, why good?

1 points by eye_dle ↗ HN
Hello! I can't get my mind off the idea of building an AI-native social network. Every user has its own agent (only one), which can talk to other agents or check content on the user's behalf. That way, the agent can "process" far more information about people than the human, and help in building relations.

Why it is a bad/good idea? Worth trying?

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eye_dle
To clarify: it is not Moltbook. In my concept humans and agents both use such a media but content is posted by humans or at least on their approval. Agents mostly talk to other agents.
verdverm
How is this different from social media today and the direction it is further headed?

What society really needs is less social media and social agent time. It's not good for us.

eye_dle
Monetization model? People would pay for activity of the agent over the network (how much content it checks for them), not ads.

This is an attempt to kind of reduce screen time and power the genuine personal relations. If people can describe who they want to talk to or what news to get, that would make their presence online more thoughtful.

verdverm
I'm highly doubtful ai will help humanity with social media. Better to get off of it and interact with real people than to put ai bots as another layer between our human connections.
ungreased0675
What is the intended utility of it?
eye_dle
The first, smoother social discovery. A user expresses the need to find someone (teammate, friend, reviewer, collaborator, etc.) to their agent. It then talks to other people agents to find out whether there is a matching need. If yes, agents introduce the humans to each other.

Another thing is easier content coverage - a user can describe what types of news from other people one does want to see, and the agent would send only those.