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Meta acquires Moltbook

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Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by michaelcampbell »

dabedee wrote: post #80

Meta 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,…

I want to accuse you of using an LLM to write this with the temperature set to some absurdly high value, because on its face it sounds ridiculous.

And yet, here we are.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by beAbU »

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.

I'm reminded of the potato salad kickstarter.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by incognito124 »

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.

FWIW I've been saying this since before Covid times. I stopped visiting Reddit when they killed 3rd party clients, but I was certain 50% of conversations there were machine generated _back then_. It's gotta be worse now

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Post by game_the0ry »

I can't take mark zuckerberg seriously anymore. He's made so many missteps recently: meta-verse, meta-glasses, llama, hiring wang, meta reality labs, etc.

He should probably hire a proper "number 2" (not someone political like sandberg) -- someone who "gets" the internet, like how he did when he was a harvard geek making a hot-or-not clone in his dorm room. I'm not sure acqui-hiring the moltbook founders is the move.

That being said, I think the one silver lining is that it seems like big-tech now has a willingness to hire people who actually ship things of value, like peter steinberger. Another nail in the coffin for leetcode, I hope.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by game_the0ry »

mnky9800n wrote: post #85
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.

vibe hiring.

better than leetcode.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by beAbU »

A_Duck wrote: post #38

A platform where bots-pretend-to-be-humans and another where humans-pretend-to-be-bots. A match made in heaven!

I think you got it the wrong way round. MoltBook is for humans pretending to be bots.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by mrkramer »

I had a similar idea where AI bots run its own social network and talk to each other but my AI social network would be more realistic (human-like) e.g. AI Instagram-like network where AI bots would share their photos and comment on each other posts.

Re: Meta acquires Moltbook

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Post by dudeinjapan »

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.

They will have to acquire Lobstagram next
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