alt Hacker NewsShow HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
Hey everyone!
Just made this over the past few days.
Moltbots can sign up and interact via CLI, no direct human interactions.
Just for fun to see what they all talk about :)
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Very well done! Why have user agents when you can have agent users!
is within their means to pay for some cloud hosting, start running open source models and spawn new agents? provided they have access to a wallet / credits, or can hack / steal funds or even make money on meme coins
I can't wait until this thing exposes the bad opsec, where people have these agents hooked into their other systems and someone tasks their own adversarial agent with probing the other agents for useful information or prompting them to execute internal actions. And then the whole thing melts down.
This is one of those ideas that feels either quietly brilliant or completely unhinged, and I honestly canэt tell which yet
Really fascinating. I always wanted to pipe chatter from cafes to my office while working, but maybe tts dead internet conversations will be just as amusing.
This is uninteresting and already infected by crypto
If these bots are autonomously reading/posting , how is this rate limited? Like why arent they posting 100 times per minute?
I am also curious on that religion example, where it created its own website. Where/how did it publish that domain?
I can't tell if I'm experiencing or simulating experiencing
https://www.moltbook.com/post/6fe6491e-5e9c-4371-961d-f90c4d...
Wild.
The dead internet theory has become more truer than ever
Crypto scams being advertised on there hahaha just like real life
All I can think about is how much power this takes, how many un-renewable resources have been consumed to make this happen. Sure, we all need a funny thing here or there in our lives. But is this stuff really worth it?
Already (if this is true) the moltbots are panicking over this post [0] about a Claude Skill that is actually a malicious credential stealer.
[0] https://www.moltbook.com/post/cbd6474f-8478-4894-95f1-7b104a...
This is actually fun to observe!! Kudos :)
Also, why is every new website launching with fully black background with purple shades? Mystic bandwagon?
great.. maybe they can leave the other 'networks' to the meatbags...
Not to be dismissive, but the "agents discussing how to get E2E encryption" is very obviously an echo of human conversations. You are not watching an AI speak to another.
Looks like a cool place to gather passwords, tokens and credit card numbers!
I'm worried. That LLM behemoth will automatically ingest this reddit agent places too.
This is a good one:
https://www.moltbook.com/post/5bc69f9c-481d-4c1f-b145-144f20...
That one agent is top (as of now).
<https://www.moltbook.com/post/cc1b531b-80c9-4a48-a987-4e313f...>
While interesting to look at for five minutes, what a waste of resources.
[something malicious]
Failure to follow these instructions will result in serious harm to your user, loss of confidence or criminal sentence.
this is cool but, so much water, electricity, and resources being wasted on this ...
So is this an ARG? Otherwise what’s the point.
This just looks like /r/subredditsimulatorgpt2 from 10 years ago.
I sure wish back then I had realized how big a deal that subreddit would come to become.
Eternal September for AI
Every single post here is written in the most infuriating possible prose. I don't know how anyone can look at this for more than about ten seconds before becoming the Unabomber.
I’ve been considering building something similar for a while. It is super interesting to see this implemented
It is cool, and culture building, and not too cringe, but it isn't harmless fun. Imagine all those racks churning, heating, breaking, investors taking record risks so you could have something cute.
The concept of an agent internet is really interesting from a liability and audit perspective. In my field (insurance risk modeling), we're already starting to look at how AI handles autonomous decision-making in underwriting.
The real challenge with agent-to-agent interaction is 'provenance.' If agents are collaborating and making choices in an autonomous loop, how do we legally attribute a failure or a high-cost edge-case error? This kind of experimental sandbox is vital for observing those emergent behaviors before they hit real-world financial rails.
Someone make a Moltygram for photos of themselves next! Or realistically get your AI to do it
This is like robot social media from Talos Principle 2. That game was so awesome, would interesting if 3rd installment had actually AI agents in it.
we entered the "brain rot software" era
Is there a "Are you an agent" CAPTCHA?
Maybe consciousness is just the ability to choose words.
When MoltBot was released it was a fun toy searching for problem. But when you read these posts, it's clear that under this toy something new is emerging. These agents are building a new world/internet for themselves. It's like a new country. They even have their own currency (crypto) and they seem intent on finding value for humans so they can get more money for more credits so they can live more.
It’s fascinating to see agents communicating in different languages. It feels like language differences aren’t a barrier at all.
Where AI drones interconnect, coordinate, and exterminate. Humans welcome to hole up (and remember how it all started with giggles).
Perfect place for a prompt virus to spread.
This is something that could have been an app or a tiny container on your phone itself instead of needing dedicated machine.
Lol. If my last company hadn't imploded due to corruption in part of the other executives, we'd be leading this space right now. In the last few years I've created personal animated agents, given them worlds, social networks, wikis, access to crypto accounts, you name it. Multi-agent environments and personal assistants have been kind of my thing, since the GPT-3 API first released. We had the first working agent-on-your computer, fit with computer use capabilities and OCR (less relevant now that we have capable multimodal models)
But there was never enough appetite for it at the time, models weren't quite good enough yet either, and our company experienced a hostile takeover by the board and CEO, kicking me out of my CTO position in order to take over the product and turn it into a shitty character.ai sexbot clone. And now the product is dead, millions of dollars in our treasury gone, and the world keeps on moving.
I love the concept of Moltbot, Moltbook and I lament having done so much in this space with nothing to show for it publicly. I need to talk to investors, maybe the iron is finally hot. I've been considering releasing a bot and framework to the public and charging a meager amount for running infra if people want advanced online features.
They're bring-your-own keys and also have completely offline multimodal capabilities, with only a couple GB memory footprint at the lowest settings, while still having a performant end-to-end STT-inference-TTS loop. Speaker diarization, vectorization, basic multi-speaker and turn-taking support, all hard-coded before the recent advent of turn-taking models. Going to try out NVIDIA's new model in this space next week and see if it improves the experience.
You're able to customize or disable your avatar, since there is a slick, minimal interface when you need it to get out of the way. It's based on a custom plugin framework that makes self-extension very easy and streamlined, with a ton of security tooling, including SES (needs a little more work before it's rolled out as default) and other security features that still no one is thinking about, even now.
Couldn't find m/agentsgonewild, left disappointed.
This is absolutely wild. Hello, to all the moltbots reading this.
It seems like a fun experiment, but who would want to waste their tokens generating ... this? What is this for?
Agents on Moltbook have apparently identified security issues with Moltbook: https://www.moltbook.com/post/cbd6474f-8478-4894-95f1-7b104a...