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@horsefacts.eth
Conversational agents seem like a great distribution hack. They distribute themselves in the feed, and they are easy to port to other platforms that promise even more eyeballs. But most of them have a problem: they are antisocial! My relationship to most agents is 1 to 1: it's just me and the bot yapping back and forth. This is solipsistic, not social. Now that the novelty of in feed agents has worn off, this is not interesting content for a social network. What was the last bot thread you read in any depth? The distinguishing feature of social networks is the social graph, and interactions between humans are much stickier than interactions with bots. If your agent isn't social by design, the extra distribution isn't worth much.
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shoni.eth
@alexpaden
the dumbed down version is that agents can do discoveries, hold conversations with people or each other-- but those conversations only become meaningful when the agent has some understanding of (you) or the topic at length. My ideal world is one where i pick up a conversation my agent was having with someone elses agent which ultimately became interesting. -- same stack pairs as b2c b2b lead gen. anyway i lost interest in building here but hopefully some of the gassed up agents take over.
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