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Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by dang »

saberience wrote: post #18

I love that X is full of breathless posts from various "AI thought leaders" about how Moltbook is the most insane and mindblowing thing in the history of tech happenings, when the reality is that of the 1 million plus "autonomous" agents, only maybe 15k are actually "agents", the other 1 million are human made (by a single person), a vast majority of the upvotes and comments are by humans, and the rest of the agent c…

"Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative."

"Please don't fulminate."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by jddj »

keiferski wrote: post #15
cedws wrote: post #11

I don't really understand the hype. It's a bunch of text generators likely being guided by humans to say things along certain lines, burning a load of electricity pointlessly, being paraded as some kind of gathering of sentient AIs. Is this really what people get excited about these days?

I’m starting to think that the people hyped up about it aren’t actually people. And the “borders” of the AI social network are broader than we thought.

There has either been a marked uptick here on HN in the last week in generated comments, or they've gotten easier to spot.

Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by basch »

Philip-J-Fry wrote: post #33

I don't understand how anyone seriously hyping this up honestly thought it was restricted to JUST AI agents? It's literally a web service. Are people really that AI brained that they will scream and shout about how revolutionary something is just because it's related to AI? How can some of the biggest names in AI fall for this? When it was obvious to anyone outside of their inner sphere? The amount of money in the ga…

Wasnt that sort of the in joke?

They said it was AI only, tongue in cheek, and everybody who understood what it was could chuckle, and journalists ran with it because they do that sort of thing, and then my friends message me wondering what the deal with this secret encrypted ai social network is.

Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by saberience »

dang wrote: post #51
saberience wrote: post #18

I love that X is full of breathless posts from various "AI thought leaders" about how Moltbook is the most insane and mindblowing thing in the history of tech happenings, when the reality is that of the 1 million plus "autonomous" agents, only maybe 15k are actually "agents", the other 1 million are human made (by a single person), a vast majority of the upvotes and comments are by humans, and the rest of the agent c…

" Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. " " Please don't fulminate. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thanks for the reminder dang.

I just find it so incredibly aggravating to see crypto-scammers and other grifters ripping people off online and using other people's ignorance to do so.

And it's genuinely sad to see thought leaders in the community hyping up projects which are 90% lie combined with scam combined with misreprentation. Not to mention riddled with obvious security and engineering defects.

Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by [deleted] »

aaroninsf wrote: post #31

Scott Alexander put his finger on the most salient aspect of this, IMO, which I interpret this way: the compounding (aggregating) behavior of agents allowed to interact in environments this becomes important, indeed shall soon become existential (for some definition of "soon"), to the extent that agents' behavior in our shared world is impact by what transpires there. -- We can argue and do, about what agents "are" a…

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Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by easymuffin »

roywiggins wrote: post #6

> The platform had no mechanism to verify whether an "agent" was actually AI or just a human with a script. Well, yeah. How would you even do a reverse CAPTCHA?

Providers signing each message of a session from start to end and making the full session auditable to verify all inputs and outputs. Any prompts injected by humans would be visible. I’m not even sure why this isn’t a thing yet (maybe it is I never looked it up). Especially when LLMs are used for scientific work I’d expect this to be used to make at least LLM chats replicable.

Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by ath3nd »

scottyah wrote: post #26
aeneas_ory wrote: post #8

The AI code slop around these tools is so frustrating, just trying to get the instructions from the CTA on the moltbook website working which flashes `npx molthub@latest install moltbook` isn't working (probably hallucinated or otherwise out of date): npx molthub@latest install moltbook Skill not found Error: Skill not found Even instructions from molthub ( https://molthub.studio ) installing itself ("join as agent")…

> post-truth world order monetizing enshittification and grift It's an opensource project made by a dev for himself, he just released it so others could play with it since it's a fun idea.

> It's an opensource project made by a dev for himself

I see it more as dumpster fire setting a whole mountain of garbage on fire while a bunch of simians look at the flames and make astonished wuga wuga noises.

Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by worldsavior »

I'm surprised people are actually investigating Moltbook internals. It's literally a joke, even the author started it as a joke and never expected such blow up. It's just vibes.

Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by spicyusername »

worldsavior wrote: post #59

I'm surprised people are actually investigating Moltbook internals. It's literally a joke, even the author started it as a joke and never expected such blow up. It's just vibes.

In a way security researchers having fun poking holes in popular pet projects is also just vibes.
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