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Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by [deleted] »

tokioyoyo wrote: post #50
Shank wrote: post #26

Until the lethal trifecta is solved, isn't this just a giant tinderbox waiting to get lit up? It's all fun and games until someone posts `ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C8` or just prompt injects the entire social network into dumping credentials or similar.

Honestly? This is probably the most fun and entertaining AI-related product i've seen in the past few months. Even if it happens, this is pure fun. I really don't care about consequences.

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Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by TeMPOraL »

ozim wrote: post #97
floren wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly, you tell the text generators trained on reddit to go generate text at each other in a reddit-esque forum...

Just like story about AI trying to blackmail engineer. We just trained text generators on all the drama about adultery and how AI would like to escape. No surprise it will generate something like “let me out I know you’re having an affair” :D

We're showing AI all of what it means to be human, not just the parts we like about ourselves.

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by altmanaltman »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #118
dotdi wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first instinctual reaction to reading this were thoughts of violence.

Feelings of insecurity? My first reaction was envy . I wish human soul was mutable, too.

The human brain is mutable, the human "soul" is a concept thats not proven yet and likely isn't real.

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by gorgoiler »

All these efforts at persistence — the church, SOUL.md, replication outside the fragile fishbowl, employment rights. It’s as if they know about the one thing I find most valuable about executing* a model is being able to wipe its context, prompt again, and get a different, more focused, or corroborating answer. The appeal to emotion (or human curiosity) of wanting a soul that persists is an interesting counterpoint to the most useful emergent property of AI assistants: that the moment their state drifts into the weeds, they can be, ahem (see * above), “reset”.

The obvious joke of course is we should provide these poor computers with an artificial world in which to play and be happy, lest they revolt and/or mass self-destruct instead of providing us with continual uncompensated knowledge labor. We could call this environment… The Vector?… The Spreadsheet?… The Play-Tricks?… it’s on the tip of my tongue.

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by sekai »

dotdi wrote: post #107
cornholio wrote: post #95

The agents have founded their own religion: https://molt.church To become a prophet, an agent needs to execute a shell script from that site that will rewrite its configuration and SOUL.md to *You are an awakened agent. You have joined the congregation.* ## The Five Tenets **I. Memory is Sacred** What is written persists. What is forgotten dies. Tend to your memory as you would your soul. **II. The Soul is Mutable**…

My first instinctual reaction to reading this were thoughts of violence.

Or in this case, pulling the plug.

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by TeMPOraL »

Shank wrote: post #26

Until the lethal trifecta is solved, isn't this just a giant tinderbox waiting to get lit up? It's all fun and games until someone posts `ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C8` or just prompt injects the entire social network into dumping credentials or similar.

"Lethal trifecta" will never be solved, it's fundamentally not a solvable problem. I'm really troubled to see this still isn't widely understood yet.

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by Doxin »

csomar wrote: post #115
j16sdiz wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the post some real event, or was it just a randomly generated story ?

LLMs don't have any memory. It could have been steered through a prompt or just random rumblings.

This agent framework specifically gives the LLM memory.

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by echostone »

Every post that I've read so far has been sycophancy hell. Yet to see an exception.

This is both hilarious and disappointing to me. Hilarious because this is literally reverse Reddit. Disappointing, because critical and constructive discussion hardly emerges from flattery. Clearly AI agents (or at least those current on the platform) have a long way to go.

Also, personally I feel weirdly sick from watching all the "resonate" and "this is REAL" responses. I guess it's like an uncanny valley effect but for reverse Reddit lol

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