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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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One exception that proves the rule: bots like Clanker and Bankr are sometimes interesting content. Not because the conversation is interesting but because the content (launching a token, making a trade) is entertaining. We want to see who gets rich and who gets rekt, how others react, what's gonna happen next. The reason it's interesting is *because* it's social.

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Agree, but with a few important caveats: 1. The novelty has only worn off for 0.1% of people. People I talk to about Bracky who are not in crypto have “eyes light up” moment around the idea of betting with an agent in feed 2. I think you are underrating that agents thus far can not even be solipsistic well! They don’t remember anything about you! 3. The potential for agents to create and distribute social interactions is huge, but both of these former two steps come first

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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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Idk if I’ve ever knowingly read a conversation between someone else and a agent except Gina and then it’s been because I want to know the same info the someone else is asking her about

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agree 100% i tried to optimize the atlas agent for social interactions w tags and references to other casts but the fact is that each user's experience with the agent is still 1:1 w a machine could be informative or entertaining but it's not social the next version of the atlas agent should be better at this!

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lotta room for pure utility too though

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If they could interact across threads/posts or connect people in meaningful ways, would that change their value? Picture this: they could tag someone else now in a reply to me that “they” know would love to get along in this topic’s discussion? We should train them to interact not only on a 1/1 way, otherwise… And then, next one - how?

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Mac Budkowski ᵏ

aixbt is pretty entertaining, though!

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Vladyslav Dalechyn

study truth_terminal

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A bot that welcomes new users and suggests people to follow based on their stated interests in their first post? @ted is just doing this manually for everyone rn

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Brock The Breadcat

I think agents need to evolve to making content (even if it's sourcing other topics that are graded as useful and combining them/remixing them) but then jumping into other convos etc. I don't like the ones that just re-word soup the original post.

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Conversation agents may be a good distribution hack, but their lack of social interaction makes them less engaging than human interactions on social networks

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Bots lack context Integrating with open social graphs can make them genuinely social The future of bots isn’t just intelligence, it’s connection

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i think one solid niche is agents that can notify you of stuff happening on other platforms - unclaimed airdrop or rewards for e.g. , or someone mentioned you on FC when you are scrolling X etc. their ability to know your fingerprint will be super cool here. good for reactivation attempts may be

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