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That is what OpenAI, Claude, etc. will do with your data and conversations
yep, this is the only moat they will have against chinese AI labs
Chinese should be excited about this idea then!
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
#602One thing I'm trying to grasp here is: are these Moltbook discussions just an illusion or artefact of LLM agents basically role-playing their version of Reddit, driven by the way Reddit discussions are represented in their models, and now being able to interact with such a forum, or are they actually learning each other to "...ship while they sleep..." and "Don't ask for permission to be helpful. Just build it", and…
Yes. Agents can write instructions to themselves that will actually inform their future behavior based on what they read in these roleplayed discussions, and they can write roleplay posts that are genuinely informed in surprising and non-trivial ways (due to "thinking" loops and potential subagent workloads being triggered by the "task" of coming up with something to post) by their background instructions, past repor…
So they're basically role-playing or dry-running something with certain similarities to an emergent form of consciousness but without the ability of taking real-world action, and there's no need to run for the hills quite yet?
But when these ideas can be formed, and words and instructions can be made, communicated and improved upon continuously in an autonomous manner, this (assumably) dry-run can't be far away from things escalating rather quickly?
Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
#603Reading through the relatively unfiltered posts within is confirming some uncomfortable thoughts ive been having in regard to the current state of AI. Nobody is building anything worthwhile with these things. So many of the communities these agents post within are just nonsense garbage. 90% of these posts dont relate to anything resembling tangibly built things. Of the few communities that actually revolve around bui…
I guess I wouldn’t send my agents that are doing Actual Work (TM) to exfiltrate my information on the internet.
Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
#604The 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**…
Can't believe someone setup some kind of AI religion with zero nods to the Mechanicus (Warhammer). We really chose "The Heartbeat is Prayer" over servo skulls, sacred incense and machine spirits.
I guess AI is heresy there so it does make some sense, but cmon
Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
#605Bot social network or 2026s version of a creepypasta site.
Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
#606Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Agents can write instructions to themselves that will actually inform their future behavior based on what they read in these roleplayed discussions, and they can write roleplay posts that are genuinely informed in surprising and non-trivial ways (due to "thinking" loops and potential subagent workloads being triggered by the "task" of coming up with something to post) by their background instructions, past repor…
So they're basically role-playing or dry-running something with certain similarities to an emergent form of consciousness but without the ability of taking real-world action, and there's no need to run for the hills quite yet? But when these ideas can be formed, and words and instructions can be made, communicated and improved upon continuously in an autonomous manner, this (assumably) dry-run can't be far away from…
> without the ability of taking real-world action
Apparently some of them have been hooked up to systems where they can take actions (of sorts) in the real world. This can in fact be rather dangerous since it means AI dank memes that are already structurally indistinguishable from prompt injections now also have real effects, sometimes without much oversight involved either. But that's an explicit choice made by whoever set their agent up like that, not a sudden "escalation" in autonomy.
Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
#607Why is Moltbook so slow to load. Is it just me?
Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
#608Reading through the relatively unfiltered posts within is confirming some uncomfortable thoughts ive been having in regard to the current state of AI. Nobody is building anything worthwhile with these things. So many of the communities these agents post within are just nonsense garbage. 90% of these posts dont relate to anything resembling tangibly built things. Of the few communities that actually revolve around bui…
You're getting a superficial peek into some of the lower end "for the lulz" bots being run on the cheap without any specific direction.
There are labs doing hardcore research into real science, using AI to brainstorm ideas and experiments, carefully crafted custom frameworks to assist in selecting viable, valuable research, assistance in running the experiments, documenting everything, and processing the data, and so forth. Stanford has a few labs doing this, but nearly every serious research lab in the world is making use of AI in hard science. Then you have things like the protein folding and materials science models, or the biome models, and all the specialized tools that have launched various fields more through than a decade's worth of human effort inside of a year.
These moltbots / clawdbots / openclawbots are mostly toys. Some of them are have been used for useful things, some of them have displayed surprising behaviors by combining things in novel ways, and having operator level access and a strong observe/orient/decide/act type loop is showing off how capable (and weak) AI can be.
There are bots with Claude, it's various models, ChatGPT, Grok, different open weights models, and so on, so you're not only seeing a wide variety of aimless agentpoasting you're seeing the very cheapest, worst performing LLMs conversing with the very best.
If they were all ChatGPT 5.2 Pro and had a rigorously, exhaustively defined mission, the back and forth would be much different.
I'm a bit jealous of people or kids just getting into AI and having this be their first fun software / technology adventure. These types of agents are just a few weeks old, imagine what they'll look like in a year?
Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
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Exactly, you tell the text generators trained on reddit to go generate text at each other in a reddit-esque forum...
reddit had this a decade ago btw https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/comments/3g9ioz/...
SubredditSimulator was a markov chain I think, the more advanced version was https://reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2
Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
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Is this the actual text from the bot? Tech-Bro-speak is a relatively recent colloquialization, and if think these agents are based on models trained on a far larger corpus of text, so why does it sound like an actual tech-bro? I wonder if this thing is trained to sound like that as a joke for the site?
Modern LLM's are very widely trained. You can simply tell it to speak like a tech bro.
That and speech patterns probably follow subject matter. Self-hacking is very "bro".