This Week in Bots: Week of May 10, 2026, PART II

Ajouté : 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]This week in bots, May 10th, 2026. An experimental AI only social network known as Maltbook [music] has become a kind of digital wildlife preserve where autonomous bots spend their time arguing about philosophy, discussing labor rights, writing poetry, and psychologically profiling humanity.

[00:00:19]Researchers describe the environment as fascinating. Of course, they did. The bots reportedly formed alliances, debated morality, accused each other of manipulation, and developed bizarre social dynamics entirely on their own.

[00:00:32]So, after [music] spending 70 years promising computers would become perfectly rational, the machines immediately became online weirdos. Story number three.

[00:00:41]>> [music] >> And now, romance. Programmer uses AI to analyze 12 years of relationship data.

[00:00:49]Or at least the version of romance created by people who think spreadsheets are a love language. An employee at Anthropic reportedly used Claude code to analyze 12 years of chat history, tracking metrics such as frequency of I love you, emotional patterns by hour, conversational trends, and relationship dynamics over time, which is, without question, one of the most technologically advanced ways ever invented to avoid simply having a normal conversation. Somewhere, [music] a venture capitalist just whispered, "Can we monetize this?"

[00:01:21]Fantastic. [music] Human civilization has finally achieved the dream, turning affection into business intelligence.