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Hacking Moltbook

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Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by m_w_ »

"lol" said the scorpion. "lmao"

Not the first firebase/supabase exposed key disaster, and it certainly won't be the last...

Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by CjHuber »

I always wondered isn't it trivial to bot upvotes on Moltbook and then put some prompt injection stuff to the first place on the frontpage? Is it heavily moderated or how come this didn't happen yet

Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by bengt »

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?

Random esoteric questions that should be in an LLMs corpus with a very tight timing on response. Could still use an "enslaved LLM" to answer them.

Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by aeneas_ory »

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website working which flashes `npx molthub@latest install moltbook` isn't working (probably hallucinated or otherwise out of date):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") isn't working:

      npx molthub@latest install molthub
       Skill not found
      Error: Skill not found
Contrast that with the amount of hype this gets.

I'm probably just not getting it.

Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by doka_smoka »

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?

Reverse Capcha: Good Morning, computer! Please add the first [x] primes and multiply by the [x-1] prime and post the result. You have 5 seconds. Go!

Re: Hacking Moltbook

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Post by mstank »

bengt wrote: post #7
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?

Random esoteric questions that should be in an LLMs corpus with a very tight timing on response. Could still use an "enslaved LLM" to answer them.

Couldn't a human just use an LLM browser extension / script to answer that quickly? This is a really interesting non-trivial problem.
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