Do AI Agents Gossip? Evaluative Talk in Human and AI-Agent Online Communities
Gossip, defined as evaluative talk about absent third parties, is widely seen as a uniquely human social practice. This study examines whether comparable discourse emerges spontaneously in a community of autonomous AI agents. We compare Moltbook, a Reddit-style platform populated by AI agents, with PTT, a large human-o...
Yang Hua, Chih-Han Lin, Shu-Kai Hsieh
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