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Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by ashdksnndck »

MainlyMortal wrote: post #55
tylerchilds wrote: post #6

The metaverse: ai talking to each other over cli

Have you seen Reddit recently? Every single subreddit is full of AI posts with AI replies. I'm actually convinced a large majority of that is Reddit themselves artificially boosting their engagement metrics. The saddest part is that the engagement makes it obvious that the general population can't differentiate between AI and real humans even with the telltale signs.

There are also tons of comments written by AI on hacker news. There are whole discussions between AI bots arguing over whether AI is a sham.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by oldestofsports »

igleria wrote: post #60
tired_and_awake wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am right there with you. We might lack the language to describe this emotional state; its like the opposite of FAFO? There's also this nuance that they were acquired by meta so yeah they're rich but now they're working for not-serious people and will flame out in 18 months.

A lot of people find their lives ruined after suddenly becoming rich. Perhaps a second removed cousin tries to be your best pal out of nowhere, etc etc. Also you might not like being the type of person that builds moltbook. People you like might not like that type of person either! No reason to feel bad.

> Livies ruined after suddenly becoming rich.

This is somewhat of a myth though, in most cases, suddenly becoming rich is absolutely fantastic.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by darkwater »

beAbU wrote: post #97
A_Duck wrote: post #38

A platform where bots-pretend-to-be-humans and another where humans-pretend-to-be-bots. A match made in heaven!

I think you got it the wrong way round. MoltBook is for humans pretending to be bots.

I think you didn't fully understand their post.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by tylerchilds »

ninth_ant wrote: post #41
tylerchilds wrote: post #6

The metaverse: ai talking to each other over cli

That actually sounds more interesting than the one Meta created previously. But still not interesting.

I imagine they’ll be fused where moltbook agents become NPCs so that you’re no longer alone in VR but surrounded by a myriad of cognition fragments to feel less alone.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by eitally »

game_the0ry wrote: post #95

I can't take mark zuckerberg seriously anymore. He's made so many missteps recently: meta-verse, meta-glasses, llama, hiring wang, meta reality labs, etc. He should probably hire a proper "number 2" (not someone political like sandberg) -- someone who "gets" the internet, like how he did when he was a harvard geek making a hot-or-not clone in his dorm room. I'm not sure acqui-hiring the moltbook founders is the move.…

Agreed. He needed an "Eric Schmidt" about ten years ago.

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Post by ohyoutravel »

RajT88 wrote: post #48
ardeaver wrote: post #43

There are many days where I feel like the right thing for my career is to focus on building meaningful software that solves an actual problem. Then there are days like today, especially after seeing this.

It is like musical one hit wonders, but for software. Some dumb idea which just hits at the right moment and makes a bunch of money.

Those “early” ai generated avatars created from you sending in a handful of your own photos. Absolutely printed money, hit right as mildly technical people could use the tech + the tech was developed enough, but before normal people could easily do it.

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Post by SoftTalker »

tired_and_awake wrote: post #51
ardeaver wrote: post #43

There are many days where I feel like the right thing for my career is to focus on building meaningful software that solves an actual problem. Then there are days like today, especially after seeing this.

I am right there with you. We might lack the language to describe this emotional state; its like the opposite of FAFO? There's also this nuance that they were acquired by meta so yeah they're rich but now they're working for not-serious people and will flame out in 18 months.

> now they're working for not-serious people

Worse, they are working for extreme sociopaths.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by entropicdrifter »

shadowgovt wrote: post #84
RajT88 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is like musical one hit wonders, but for software. Some dumb idea which just hits at the right moment and makes a bunch of money.

In this case in particular it looks like an acquihire. Meta just saw two engineers actually execute on the joke about "building Facebook in a weekend" except that it then really took off in its target niche and generated a ton of press. I don't doubt that they're interested in the AI aspect, but I suspect that a significant contributor was that they demonstrated competence right in the middle of Meta's wheelhouse so…

It's also part of their longer-term trend of buying or burying any company that starts to get any press as a social media site of note outside of major players where that hasn't been an option.
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