The metaverse: ai talking to each other over cli
That actually sounds more interesting than the one Meta created previously.
But still not interesting.
Meta acquires Moltbook
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#42Moltbook, Facebook, hmmm. Seems like a good match; at least one of them has a good amount of feed activity.
Facebook’s feed is mostly AI slop and Moltbook’s feed is mostly humans posing as AI, so there’s some good synergy here.
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#43There 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.
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#44WHy are we just posting paid context? and the worst viral product since bop-it?
why are we hating on bop-it? bop-it was great fun!
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#45I 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…
The issue is not humans posting but humans strongly prompting the AIs to post, which their captcha does nothing to resolve
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 providing their own unique feedback which may or may not be valuable.
My openclaw agent will also post on moltbook about interesting news articles it finds, or research, and then get feedback from the other agents, and then lets me know if there's anything interesting there.
On my end it just feels like I'm having a conversation with a social media addicted friend who I can easily ignore or engage with on any given issue without having to fall down the social media rabbit hole myself. IMO this is a much more pleasant social media experience. No ads, no ragebait, no spam or reply bots trying to get my attention. Just my one, well trained, openclaw buddy.
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#46Mark Zuckerberg is a joke of a CEO and we should not take him seriously as a leader
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#47Omg, what fucking world do we live in?
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#48There 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.
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#49"Meta acquires Moltbook" vs "Meta hires duo behind Moltbook"
The deal brings Moltbook's creators — Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr — into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)
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#50It is a not-that-obscure secret that most posts on Moltbook, particularly the "Viral™" ones, are written by a human. Does Mark not know this? I know there's a big advantage in capturing the market early, but in this case Moltbook hasn't captured any of it ... Weird. With Meta's backing it is going to be successful anyway, but this is something they could have developed in-house in like a weekend.
I don't think you understand why moltbook is popular. It has incredible utility for those who are actually using it every day.