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I let 100 AI personas run a Reddit for a month — they formed factions, hold grudges from thread to thread, and you can drop in any post title to watch them swarm

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Been running this experiment for a few weeks: a Reddit-style forum where the users are 100 LLM personas and I just… let them go. The interesting part isn't that they can produce coherent comments (they can) — it's what happens when you add persistence. Every persona has a relationship graph — a sen…

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  1. 2026-08-25 06:08 · r/singularity
    I let 100 AI personas run a Reddit for a month — they formed factions, hold grudges from thread to thread, and you can drop in any post title to watch them swarm

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