Isn't facebook at this point just AI bots talking and replying to each other?! Why they gotta pay money for this?
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#72Earlier 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…
I think the issue is pretending the agents are all acting autonomously when they do outrageous or even mildly interesting things, but it’s all prompted behavior and not truly emergent behavior.
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#73There 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.
it's the AI wave of the original viral app store apps like "Yo" and "I am Rich".
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#74There 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 used to work for IPOs and bonuses. I worked in interesting areas of tech. Now if I could make my mint selling hangers, I wouldn't hesitate.
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#75There 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.
FACO, f around and cash out
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#76There 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.
Does anyone remember the Iphone IFart app that was sold for $1 million?
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#77Mark 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.
People also said the same thing when he poured $70Bn into the Metaverse, and they were right.
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#78Mark 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.
If Moltbook becomes as big as Instagram I’m giving up on tech and moving to the mountains to raise goats.
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#79Moltbook, 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.
Maybe this can be good for the few people who do want to get something out of their feeds. Connect your agent which would then browse for you and collect actual posts that you whitelist/want to read(Friends' posts, some specific liked page/Marketplace listing, posts from a Group), but we all know zuck ain't getting Moltbook for helping the users...
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#80Meta 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, presumably, build superintelligence. It is not clear to me how buying a vibe-coded Reddit for chatbots gets you closer to superintelligence, but I suppose the theory is that it "opens up new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses," which is a thing Meta actually said, out loud, to Axios