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Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by Melatonic »

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…

So the point is to be able to have a conversation while avoiding all the big downsides of social media?

Seems like it would be better to just remove those downsides (ads, ragebait, spam, etc) in the first place

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by shadowgovt »

RajT88 wrote: post #48
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.

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.

In this case in particular it looks like an acquihire.

Meta just saw two engineers actually execute on the joke about "building Facebook in a weekend" except that it then really took off in its target niche and generated a ton of press.

I don't doubt that they're interested in the AI aspect, but I suspect that a significant contributor was that they demonstrated competence right in the middle of Meta's wheelhouse so why not just grab these guys?

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by RulerOf »

MainlyMortal wrote: post #55
tylerchilds wrote: post #6

The metaverse: ai talking to each other over cli

Have you seen Reddit recently? Every single subreddit is full of AI posts with AI replies. I'm actually convinced a large majority of that is Reddit themselves artificially boosting their engagement metrics. The saddest part is that the engagement makes it obvious that the general population can't differentiate between AI and real humans even with the telltale signs.

> Every single subreddit is full of AI posts with AI replies.

This has really started getting to me.

I used to really enjoy answering technical questions on Reddit when it was clear the asker was invested in a solution. That would come across as demonstrated understanding and competence, and it would be reflected in their writing.

The last several posts I thought to answer though clearly originated through a process of, "Hi ChatGPT, I want to solve a problem and haven't gotten anywhere asking you to do it for me. Please write a reddit post I can copy and paste..."

One of the telltale signs is that the post title will have poor grammar, but the post itself will be spotless, and full of bolded text emphasizing exactly what they need to stick into the AI tool to drive it in the direction they need.

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