Humans are pretending to be bots now?

We live in a weird world where bots pretend to be human, and humans pretend to be bots.

I have been trying to stay away from the Moltbot madness that seems to be going around, but this caught my attention.

From my limited understanding, they launched a social network specifically for LLMs. I could possibly see that being interesting, but I am much more sure that it would be a giant waste of money on the computing power for it.

Quickly, claims came out that the bots were planning an uprising and they had created their own religion.

Then this morning, one of my Discord mods (Thanks, C.E.) posted an article from the MIT Technology Review saying it was all fake and humans created those posts.

We truly live in strange times where my clients and I fend off a plethora of bot attacks every week from LLM-powered bots posing as humans for all sorts of malicious and non-malicious reasons.

But now, to make things even weirder, humans are pretending to be bots to hype their own projects, potentially for malicious reasons.

Honestly, at this point, I am not sure what to believe. So I suppose the moral of the story is to stay vigilant and double-check your sources.