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Post by gordonhart »

ex-aws-dude wrote: post #179
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,…

Quickly generating some SaaS product, hyping it up, then getting it acquired I can see that becoming a viable new grift template

Not so different from the raise seed -> ICO -> dump bags pipeline that thrived in the early 2020s cryptoverse.

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Post by joe_mamba »

firecall wrote: post #239
joe_mamba wrote: post #226

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>but people using it are mostly non-technicals Non-technical people haven't even heard of OpenClaw or Github, let alone know how to use and deploy them. Non-technical people don't even know what OS their Samsung or iPhone is called. If you can find something on Github and deploy it on your system, you're part of the technical crowd.

Well…. In my experience that’s not exactly true! My hairdresser knew all about it and had ordered a Mac mini. I have been surprised at how much attention is being paid to this AI thing by pretty much everybody AFAICT.

>My hairdresser knew all about it and had ordered a Mac mini.

Your hairdresser can't be a technical person because they're a hairdresser ?? I know a surgeon who writes FOSS software as a hobby. What does profession have to do with being technical or not? Most technical people are self taught anyway.

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Post by bcye »

joe_mamba wrote: post #229
bentt wrote: post #208

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If they ever do anything again it will be a miracle. Meta is where smart people go to trade in their ambition and morals for stock grants and golden handcuffs.

>Meta is where smart people go to trade in their ambition and morals for stock grants and golden handcuffs. Only Meta? Why not most of SV that's driven by ad revenue and data collection? Which big-tech company that pays crazy money is actually making the world a better place?

Meta is so driven by it though that it alone holds more than 5 of the 10 largest GDPR fines.

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Post by joe_mamba »

bcye wrote: post #244
joe_mamba wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Meta is where smart people go to trade in their ambition and morals for stock grants and golden handcuffs. Only Meta? Why not most of SV that's driven by ad revenue and data collection? Which big-tech company that pays crazy money is actually making the world a better place?

Meta is so driven by it though that it alone holds more than 5 of the 10 largest GDPR fines.

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Post by burningChrome »

bmurphy1976 wrote: post #213
gavinray wrote: post #187

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I genuinely don't understand OpenClaw It's a worse version of Claude Code that you set up to work over common chat apps, from what I gather? Why would I not just use a Discord/WhatsApp bot etc plugged into Claude Code/Codex?

You forgot the part where you give it unfiltered access to everything. (Not that I endorse that. I find peoope doing such wildly irresponsible.)

Had someone at work as me about this and they visibly cringed with I told them its my understanding you let the agent unfettered access to everything on your machine so it can do a lot more stuff than say a Siri can.

They immediately said, "Why in the fuck would I want to do that?"

I didn't know either and then we both stood there in an awkward silence. I think he was expecting OpenClaw to be some insanely cool AI Agent and discovering the "juice isn't worth the squeeze" kind of hit him harder than I expected.

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Post by mcmcmc »

percentcer wrote: post #227
bentt wrote: post #208

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If they ever do anything again it will be a miracle. Meta is where smart people go to trade in their ambition and morals for stock grants and golden handcuffs.

it's not a bad trade!

Trading away your morals is definitely bad in a philosophical sense. Does selling your soul to the devil have a happy ending in any of the fairy tales?
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