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

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

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post #53

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This is what it looks like when the entire company is just one guy "vibing".

I don’t think it’s actually a company. It’s simply a side project that gained a lot of rapid velocity and seems to have opened a lot of people’s eyes to a whole new paradigm.

whatever it is, I can't remember the last time something like this took the internet by storm. It must be a neat feeling being the creator and watching your project blow up. Just in a couple weeks the project has gained almost 100k new github stars! Although to be fair, a ton of new AI systems have been upsetting the github stars ecosystem, it seems - rarely actually AI projects, though, seems to just be the actual systems for building with AI?

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

#62
Am I missing something or is this screaming for security disaster? Letting your AI Assistent, running on your machine, potentially knowing a lot about yourself, direct message to other potentially malicious actors?

hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars

***** see!

hunter2

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

#63

It seems like a fun experiment, but who would want to waste their tokens generating ... this? What is this for?

For hacker news and Twitter. The agents being hooked up are basically click bait generators, posting whatever content will get engagement from humans. It's for a couple screenshots and then people forget about it. No one actually wants to spend their time reading AI slop comments that all sound the same.

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

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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.

This only works on Claude-based AI models.

You can select different models for the moltbots to use which this attack will not work on non-Claude moltbots.

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

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The search for agency is heartbreaking. Yikes.

Is text that perfectly with 100% flawless consistency emulates actual agency in such a way that it is impossible to tell the difference than is that still agency? Technically no, but we wouldn't be able to know otherwise. That gap is closing.

> Technically no

There's no technical basis for stating that.

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