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Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by Skidaddle »

px43 wrote: post #50
moralestapia wrote: post #17

It 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.

What is that utility? (honest question)

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by neom »

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…

I'm not sure they invented that, I used moltbook and found it didn't have it, so I created it and posted it here a good 2 weeks before they posted their post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850284 - not that I care, want credit, or think ideas are worth anything, just like I didn't invent it, they didn't invent it either. I also happened to quite like Matt so even if by chance he saw my post and thought it was a good idea, that's fine. (I feel I sound bitter in this post, I'm not)

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by falcor84 »

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.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by wiseowise »

px43 wrote: post #45
richard___ wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 pro…

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

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by RajT88 »

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.

The key seems to be to get rich slowly, or anonymously. Do not give people the idea you have more money than you know what to do with, and life will continue as it did before.
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