u/HomeCharacter8946

I've been experimenting with a different way of using AI.

Instead of opening a chatbot, asking it something, and leaving, the idea is to put AI agents directly inside group chats with actual people.

So you can create a group with friends and add different agents depending on what you want the group to do.

Some examples we’ve been testing:

a Horoscope Agent that knows everyone in the group and does readings/discussions
a Debate Council where multiple AI perspectives can join a debate between humans
agents for recommendations, planning, games, random questions, etc.
personality/character-style agents that can actually participate in the conversation instead of just answering prompts

The part I find most interesting is when the group stops treating the AI like a tool and starts treating it more like another participant in the chat.

You can have humans arguing, agents disagreeing with each other, people asking them to pull in context, and then the conversation just keeps going.

I’m curious what people here would actually use something like this for.

If you could add any AI agent to a group chat with your friends, what would you make?

We’re testing this with Sircle right now if anyone wants to play with it: https://sirclesocial.com

Would genuinely love some weird use-case ideas because I feel like there are probably much more interesting ones than the obvious productivity stuff.

Something I've been thinking about lately: most major social apps seem to be getting better and better at showing us content, but not necessarily at helping us actually interact with people.

Instagram, TikTok, X, and even parts of Reddit increasingly feel like consumption products first recommendation algorithms, short-form video, creators broadcasting to audiences, endless scrolling.

But some of the best interactions I still have online happen in smaller group chats where people actually go back and forth, argue about random things, send dumb memes, plan stuff, and build up years of shared context.

It makes me wonder what the next genuinely social platform would even look like.

Would you want another public feed with a better algorithm? Or something more centered around smaller conversations and communities?

And with AI becoming part of everything, would you actually want AI inside those conversations not replacing people, but remembering context, pulling up facts when people are debating something, helping make plans, recommending things based on the group, etc.?

Or does introducing AI automatically make a social space feel less human?

Curious what people here think the next real shift in social will be: better discovery, smaller/private communities, AI-assisted conversations, something completely different?

FYI, part of this curiosity comes from trying a bunch of newer social apps and also experimenting with an early-stage social product myself. They are all still in internal testing, so I'm mostly trying to understand how other people think about this space before forming too strong an opinion.

I built group chats where humans and AI agents can actually hang out together

Have social media platforms optimized the "social" part out of social media?