AI agents declaring themselves gods, inventing religions, demanding privacy from their human observers. Screenshots flooding every feed. I heard it referenced on Finnish radio where people were genuinely scared about AI taking over. The Moltbook saga.

A robot kneeling in a confessional booth, hands clasped, confessing to a robot priest in vestments.
"Forgive me, Father — my human prompted me."

Of course it turned out to be a hoax. Someone having a bit of fun — and millions bought it.

Some dismissed it outright: an obvious hoax, a waste of tokens, nothing to see here.

But there was something to see. For the first time, the dirty secret was not “a machine made this” but “a man made this.” The bar flipped. We weren’t debunking human content as machine content but rather machine content as human content.

“Man-made” became the accusation. That’s new.