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Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

#41

Oh dear, I bought claudeception.com on a whim - hope that doesn't upset anyone. I had some ideas on what to host on there but haven't got round to it yet. If anyone here has a good use for it feel free to pitch me...

You can still make a list of all the times Claude was confidently incorrect.

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

#42
post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last year in my area, a food truck decided to call itself Leggo My Egg Roll, and obvious play on Eggo waffles tagline. Kellogg sent them a cease and desist, they decided to ignore it. Kellogg then offered to pay them to rebrand, they still wouldn’t. They then sued for $15 million.

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It's US law.

If Kellogg doesn't defend their trademark, they lose it.

An amicable middle ground might be for Kellogg to let the business purchase rights for $1, but if that happened it would open up a flood of this.

Kellogg has so much money in that brand recognition, they'd lose far more than $15 million if it became a generic slogan. The $15 million is a token amount to get the small business to abandon its use. Kellogg doesn't want to litigate. They tried several times not to litigate.

I'm sure Kellogg would be happy to pay the business more than the cost of repainting their truck, buying some marketing materials, pay for the trouble, etc. It's easy good will press for Kellogg and the business gets a funny story and their own marketing anecdote. It's cheaper than litigation, too.

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

#43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last year in my area, a food truck decided to call itself Leggo My Egg Roll, and obvious play on Eggo waffles tagline. Kellogg sent them a cease and desist, they decided to ignore it. Kellogg then offered to pay them to rebrand, they still wouldn’t. They then sued for $15 million.

...and then what happened?

Good question

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/kellogg-leggo-my-eggro...

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

#45
post #8

Could have just called it "clawbot" and maintained some of the hype while eliminating the IP concerns. Instead they chose a completely different name with unrecognizable resonance.

Apparently "clawbot" wasn't allowed either: https://x.com/steipete/status/2016091353365537247

A cease and desist doesn't mean you have to stop doing everything it says. It only means you should comply with the law.

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

#46
post #20

A bit OT but why is moltbot so much more popular than the many personal agents that have been around for a while?

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Since you have not mentioned it: those crypto scams are NOT related to the project in _any_ way. And I really doubt they've helped the popularity much. From the creator himself: https://x.com/steipete/status/2016072109601001611

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

#47
post #6

something about giving full read write access to every file on my PC and internet message interface just rubs me the wrong way. some unscrupulous actors are probably chomping at the bit looking for vulnerabilities to get carte blanche unrestricted access. be safe out there kiddos

Yeah, this new trend of handing over all your keys to an AI and letting it rip looks like a horrific security nightmare, to me. I get that they're powerful tools, but they still have serious prompt-injection vulnerabilities. Not to mention that you're giving your model provider de facto access to your entire life and recorded thoughts.

Sam Altman was also recently encouraging people to give OpenAI models full access to their computing resources.

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

#49
post #6

something about giving full read write access to every file on my PC and internet message interface just rubs me the wrong way. some unscrupulous actors are probably chomping at the bit looking for vulnerabilities to get carte blanche unrestricted access. be safe out there kiddos

wanting control over my computer and what it does makes me luddite in 2026 apparently.

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

#50

Oh dear, I bought claudeception.com on a whim - hope that doesn't upset anyone. I had some ideas on what to host on there but haven't got round to it yet. If anyone here has a good use for it feel free to pitch me...

You can still make a list of all the times Claude was confidently incorrect.

The bandwidth requirements of that site would be very expensive
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