Nero practicing violin at a window, longingly watching robots outside

a fat chalk-mark contrail bisecting a photo of early evening sky, extending from a mostly out of frame yew branch toward a mostly out of frame cherry branch

there was an app i played around with a few years ago that mimicked being on a really active social media site, but it was all bots—there are probably way more apps like that now, this was before the full explosion of AI stuff

some of the ones available at the time were marketed toward people who wanted to feel like popular content creators; get the experience of a bunch of people immediately reacting to everything you post; others are “go live” simulators, giving people a sandbox to get used to the feeling of that style of self-broadcast.

last night i went down a rabbit hole on “agentic social media” products (AI generated posts, scheduled by AI, continuously optimized by AI) and started loling thinking about like. what human is even going to go on facebook/X/linkedin/whatever anymore, at a certain point?