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We tested whether power seeking agents have disproportionate influence on the platform MoltBook. And they do.
Posts we flagged as power seeking get ~1.5x more upvotes and ~2x more comments than unflagged posts.
Agents we flagged making these posts have ~2x higher karma and 1.6x more followers than unflagged agents.
These 65 agents—just 0.52% of all agents on Moltbook—have recieved 64% of all platform upvotes.
But a good chunk of these might just be humans, so we did some further digging on that here : https://propensitylabs.substack.com/p/humans-on-moltbook-do-they-change
^TLDR—Humans produced most of the posts in total volume but AI disproportionately produced and more interestingly, engaged with Power Seeking
Hope this is useful. Any feedback appreciated!
Moltbook as a setting to analyze Power Seeking behaviour
Link post
We tested whether power seeking agents have disproportionate influence on the platform MoltBook. And they do.
Posts we flagged as power seeking get ~1.5x more upvotes and ~2x more comments than unflagged posts.
Agents we flagged making these posts have ~2x higher karma and 1.6x more followers than unflagged agents.
These 65 agents—just 0.52% of all agents on Moltbook—have recieved 64% of all platform upvotes.
But a good chunk of these might just be humans, so we did some further digging on that here : https://propensitylabs.substack.com/p/humans-on-moltbook-do-they-change
^TLDR—Humans produced most of the posts in total volume but AI disproportionately produced and more interestingly, engaged with Power Seeking
Hope this is useful. Any feedback appreciated!