Manus AI Said to Run 50 Social Media Accounts Autonomously, Sparking 'Dead Internet' Debate
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-09-21
A user cites a claim that China's AI agent "Manus AI" runs 50 social media accounts around the clock, entirely on its own, adding "Dead internet. This is scary."
The retweeter responds with a blunt question: what is the point of this? The thread centers on whether AI agents mass-producing social content are turning the internet into machines talking to machines.
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