Moltbook is the talk of Silicon Valley. But the furor is eerily reminiscent of a 2017 Facebook research experiment

Is there such a thing as a slow week in AI? 

The xAI-SpaceX merger is still fresh, AI fears have been slamming software stocks, and Moltbook—a social network for personal AI agents—blew up the Internet. 

The online furor over Moltbook was cascading and immediate. But, as my colleague Jeremy Kahn pointed out, we’ve seen this film before, in some sense. Here’s Jeremy: 

Moltbook—which functions a lot like Reddit but restricts posting to AI bots, while humans are only...