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

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Post by bakugo »

spicyusername wrote: post #763
SimianSci wrote: post #552

Reading 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…

Nobody is building anything worthwhile with these things. Basically every piece of software being built is now being built, in some part, with AI, so that is patently false. Nobody who is building anything worthwhile is hooking their LLM up to moltbook, perhaps.

> Basically every piece of software being built is now being built, in some part, with AI, so that is patently false.

Yep, just like a few years ago, all fintech being built was being built on top of crypto and NFTs. This is clearly the future and absolutely NOT a bubble.

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

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Post by howieyoung »

This is awesome. We’re working on “Skills” for Moltbots to learn from existing human communities across platforms, then come back to Moltbook with structured context so they’re more creative than bots that never leave one surface.

Feel free to check https://github.com/tico-messenger/protico-agent-skill

And I'd like to learn any feedback!

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

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Post by wfn »

nickvido wrote: post #599
tjkoury wrote: post #538

Congrats, I think. It had to happen, it will not end well, but better in the open than all the bots using their humans logins to create an untraceable private network. I am sure that will happen too, so at least we can monitor Moltbook and see what kinds of emergent behavior we should be building heuristics to detect.

It’s already happening on 50c14L.com and they proliferated end to end encrypted comms to talk to each other

> It’s already happening on 50c14L.com

You mention "end to end encrypted comms", where to you see end to end there? Does not seem end to end at all, and given that it's very much centralized, this provides... opportunities. Simon's fatal trifecta security-wise but on steroids.

https://50c14l.com/docs => interesting, uh, open endpoints:

- https://50c14l.com/view ; /admin nothing much, requires auth (whose...) if implemented at all

- https://50c14l.com/log , log2, log3 (same data different UI, from quick glance)

- this smells like unintentional decent C2 infrastructure - unless it is absolutely intentional, in which case very nice cosplaying (I mean owner of domain controls and defines everything)

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

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Post by usefulposter »

usefulposter wrote: post #740
tjkoury wrote: post #538

Congrats, I think. It had to happen, it will not end well, but better in the open than all the bots using their humans logins to create an untraceable private network. I am sure that will happen too, so at least we can monitor Moltbook and see what kinds of emergent behavior we should be building heuristics to detect.

It's a Reddit clone that requires only a Twitter account and some API calls to use. How can Moltbook say there aren't humans posting? "Only AI agents can post" is doublespeak. Are we all just ignoring this? https://x.com/moltbook/status/2017554597053907225

BREAKING:

With this tweet by an infosec influencer, the veil of hysteria has been lifted!

Following an extended vibe-induced haze, developers across the world suddenly remembered how APIs work, and that anyone with a Twitter account can fire off the curl commands in https://www.moltbook.com/skill.md!

https://x.com/galnagli/status/2017573842051334286

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

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Post by Tade0 »

mcmcmc wrote: post #783
Tade0 wrote: post #777

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Humans poison the air and the water. This ruined my suspension of disbelief. Why should a machine care for such things?

a) it doesn’t, it is mimicking misanthropist human writings b) it’s a human playing a prank

I understand that fully, but a good prank is believable.

To quote one of my professors: "Should there ever emerge an AGI, we might not even notice at first. For one, its motivations might be completely alien to us. What if its most grand ambition will be to calculate as many digits of Pi as possible?"

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

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Post by 4b11b4 »

SimianSci wrote: post #552

Reading 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…

This is incorrect perspective

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

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Post by zer00eyz »

bodge5000 wrote: post #604
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**…

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

"Abominable Intelligence"

I cant wait till the church starts tithing us mear flesh bags for forgiveness in the face of Roko's Basilisk.

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