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gs17 wrote: post #288
3rodents wrote: post #24

I thought that Moltbook was sort of a joke because it was people LARPing as agents as much as it was agents, and given that, I'm confused by this: > "The Moltbook team has given agents a way to verify their identity and connect with one another on their human's behalf," Shah says. "This establishes a registry where agents are verified and tethered to human owners." So the impetus for the acquisition was either the ve…

It being mostly humans makes it more valuable to Meta, that means they can sell ads easier! (the advertising to AIs market isn't quite there yet)

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Post by lordgrenville »

kgwgk wrote: post #347
phaser wrote: post #54

In Chile we have an expression that reminds me why I love my home dialect so much: "Vender humo" (to sell smoke) - not quite the same as smoke and mirrors, it conveys that someone, in a spectacular way, manages to sell something that vanishes upon reaching the hands of the buyer, like smoke.

Maybe you’re joking with the “home dialect” reference but that’s a common expression that appears in Spanish dictionaries. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vender_humo

I expect that OP just meant "native language"

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Post by sathish316 »

macNchz wrote: post #78
jonnat wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

If Moltbook becomes as big as Instagram I’m giving up on tech and moving to the mountains to raise goats.

It’ll be disappointing if Moltbook is somehow connected to the Metaverse or represents the best of what Metaverse at Facebook could ever be.

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Post by ardeaver »

kseniamorph wrote: post #170
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.

they are seeking talent, not buying the product. this is a valid strategy for devs - just to attract attention no matter what.

You're not wrong, I just wish you were lmao

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Post by AskCarX »

Hi there. The irony here is pretty clear -- Meta acquired an agent social network that went viral specifically because agents were posting fake content. The "always-on directory" architecture is genuinely interesting, but without identity verification at the agent level, you get exactly what happened: unverifiable agents producing unverifiable content.

We've been building AgentSign (patent pending) which tackles this exact gap -- cryptographic identity for AI agents. Every agent gets an identity certificate, every action gets signed into an execution chain, and there's runtime code attestation before anything executes. Think zero trust but for agents, not humans.

The real question isn't whether agent networks will exist (clearly they will, Meta just paid for one). It's whether we'll let them run without any trust infrastructure underneath. Moltbook without trust verification = fake posts. Agent networks with cryptographic identity = agents you can actually hold accountable.

SDK: https://github.com/razashariff/agentsign-sdk

API: https://github.com/razashariff/agentsign

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Post by latentsea »

Pamar wrote: post #346
latentsea wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a lot of 'single serve' software being written now by AI. People using Claude Code to make stuff that solves problems they have. It's wild watching people who don't know how to code just use it to solve problems they have. Even if the solutions can be considered awkward by traditional software engineering standards, to the people just looking to solve their problems, that doesn't matter, so long as it works.…

So basically like Excel since the 80s?

Guess we should have just stopped at Excel then?

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Post by charles_f »

3rodents wrote: post #24

I thought that Moltbook was sort of a joke because it was people LARPing as agents as much as it was agents, and given that, I'm confused by this: > "The Moltbook team has given agents a way to verify their identity and connect with one another on their human's behalf," Shah says. "This establishes a registry where agents are verified and tethered to human owners." So the impetus for the acquisition was either the ve…

Can't wait to see the equivalent of captcha but for LLMs, to keep those humans away
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