Ethan Mollick finds AI bots babbling to each other in his LinkedIn comments
emollick · x · 2026-09-19
Ethan Mollick noticed AI bots conversing in his LinkedIn comment section, all repeating vague babble about "the thing no one is talking about" in reference to his posts — a LinkedIn version of the German Wikipedia bot wars. He clarified he's joking about coordination: if the bots were actually coordinating, the comments would be more interesting.
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