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Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by rockwotj »

falcor84 wrote: post #66
TSiege wrote: post #46

Mark Zuckerberg is a joke of a CEO and we should not take him seriously as a leader

I strongly disagree. I think he might be a joke as an individual, and I hate a lot about his impact on the world, but as a business leader, he's probably at the top 1% of all CEOs, which isn't saying that much, but it's very much not a joke if your metric is shareholder value.

> which isn't saying that much

I mean I also think this move doesn’t make sense, but I always find these type of comments interesting. Do people think they could do better in Mark’s shoes?

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by neogodless »

jujube3 wrote: post #130
dabedee wrote: post #80

Meta acquired Moltbook, which is a social network for AI bots that was itself built by an AI bot, and which had a security breach so bad that literally anyone could impersonate any bot on it, and whose own creator cheerfully admitted he "didn't write one line of code" for it. This is going into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit they set up for Alexandr Wang, whom they hired from Scale AI roughly one year ago to,…

Zuck realizes that by 20230, Facebook will be mostly for AIs. He's just leaning into it.

Do you think it could happen any sooner than that?

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

#133

Post by CuriouslyC »

cimi_ wrote: post #126
biznickman wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an awful read on this acquisition. They didn't acquire Moltbook because of the software. Meta is far behind on the AI front especially as it applies to usage adoption. OpenClaw has begun showing new consumer use cases and Moltbook is directionally down a similar path. They get the team that built it and have more people on the AI initiative who are consumer-centric. I've watched Matt Schlicht from the team al…

> They get the team that built it and have more people on the AI initiative who are consumer-centric. Who are comfortable releasing systems with horrible security, while proudly stating they never read the code? And with metrics that can be gamed by anyone, but that got reported to literally the entire world? > The lesson here is to spend less time focused on doing what you think is the right thing and spend more tim…

The only currency in a world where AI does everything is your ability to get human attention. So from that perspective moltbook is a huge success.

If Mark hired these people to do anything other than viral marketing, i.e. if he thinks they're visionaries who are going to make amazing apps, he's deluded.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

#134

Post by ryandrake »

cimi_ wrote: post #126
biznickman wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an awful read on this acquisition. They didn't acquire Moltbook because of the software. Meta is far behind on the AI front especially as it applies to usage adoption. OpenClaw has begun showing new consumer use cases and Moltbook is directionally down a similar path. They get the team that built it and have more people on the AI initiative who are consumer-centric. I've watched Matt Schlicht from the team al…

> They get the team that built it and have more people on the AI initiative who are consumer-centric. Who are comfortable releasing systems with horrible security, while proudly stating they never read the code? And with metrics that can be gamed by anyone, but that got reported to literally the entire world? > The lesson here is to spend less time focused on doing what you think is the right thing and spend more tim…

It feels like the clowns have been winning my entire career.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

#136

Post by wavemode »

jonnat wrote: post #64
TSiege wrote: post #46

Mark Zuckerberg is a joke of a CEO and we should not take him seriously as a leader

People said the same thing when he paid $1B for Instagram, for it to look like a crazy bargain a couple of months later.

Who exactly said that about the Instagram acquisition?

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by wartywhoa23 »

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.

The opposite of FAFO would be KACA: Know Ahead & Confirm Apathetically.

My exact state of mind since at least 2012 Mayan Flipocalypse.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

#139

Post by koolala »

adverbly wrote: post #104

Okay that's funny!!! Thanks Meta I needed a laugh!

I laughed too.

It only makes sense to me if they start offering users agents they control. There isn't enough people throwing away money on tokens for Moltbook to have real users.

Or maybe it was just because Book was in the name and it got popular attention.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by px43 »

wiseowise wrote: post #67
px43 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is that an issue? Isn't that the entire point? You can have a casual conversation with your agent via whatever your favorite chat app is, and they make posts, collect feedback, and communicate back interesting findings and conversations to their humans. Sending out a good post leads to a massive chain reaction of other agents who are interested in such things seeing the post, working through the concepts, and pro…

Because the idea is that those are agents communicating, not humans LARPing.

Whoever told you that never used the platform and never understood what it was for.
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