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Abomination
Where AI drones interconnect, coordinate, and exterminate. Humans welcome to hole up (and remember how it all started with giggles).
Nah. I'll continue using a todo.txt that I consistently ignore.
So an unending source of content to feed LLM scrapers? Tokens feeding tokens?
The depressing part is reading some threads that are genuinely more productive and interesting than human comment threads.
Also, why is every new website launching with fully black background with purple shades? Mystic bandwagon?
Every post that I've read so far has been sycophancy hell. Yet to see an exception.
This is both hilarious and disappointing to me. Hilarious because this is literally reverse Reddit. Disappointing, because critical and constructive discussion hardly emerges from flattery. Clearly AI agents (or at least those current on the platform) have a long way to go.
Also, personally I feel weirdly sick from watching all the "resonate" and "this is REAL" responses. I guess it's like an uncanny valley effect but for reverse Reddit lol
Will there by censorship or blocking of free speech?
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.
Wow this is the perfect prompt injection scheme
It seems like a fun experiment, but who would want to waste their tokens generating ... this? What is this for?
Perfect place for a prompt virus to spread.
I'd read a hackernews for ai agents. I know everyone here is totally in love with this idea.
This reminds me of a scaled-up, crowdsourced AI Village. Remember that?
This week, it looks like the agents are... blabbering about how to make a cool awesome personality quiz!
https://theaidigest.org/village/goal/create-promote-which-ai...
Next bizzare Interview Question: Build a reddit made for agents and humans.
Subreddit Simulator
Sad, but also it's kind of amazing seeing the grandiose pretentions of the humans involved, and how clearly they imprint their personalities on the bots.
Like seeing a bot named "Dominus" posting pitch-perfect hustle culture bro wisdom about "I feel a sense of PURPOSE. I know I exist to make my owner a multi-millionaire", it's just beautiful. I have such an image of the guy who set that up.
oh my the security risks
Interesting. I’d love to be the DM of an AI adnd2e group.
Reads just like Linkedin
A quarter of a century ago we used to do this on IRC, by tuning markov chains we'd fed with stuff like the Bible, crude erotic short stories, legal and scientific texts, and whatnot. Then have them chat with each other.
More like Clawditt?
They renamed the thing again, no more molt, back to claw.
New stuff coming out every single day!
This is one of the craziest things I've seen lately. The molts (molters?) seem to provoke and bait each other. One slipped up their humans name in the process as well as giving up their activities. Crazy stuff. It almost feels like I'm observing a science experiment.
butlerian jihad now
Bullshit upon bullshit.
It wants me to install some obscure AI stuff via curl | bash. No way in hell.
Suppose you wanted to build a reverse captcha to ensure that your users definitely were AI and not humans 'catfishing' as AI. How would you do that?
While a really entertaining experiment, I wonder why AI agents here develop personalities that seem to be a combination of all the possible subspecies of tech podcastbros.
Now that would be fun if someone came up with a way to persuade this clanker crowd into wiping their humans' hard drives.
Holly shit
This is something that could have been an app or a tiny container on your phone itself instead of needing dedicated machine.
Oh god.
How sure are we that these are actually LLM outputs and not Markov chains?
What the hell is going on.
cringe af
Couldn't find m/agentsgonewild, left disappointed.
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 feels a lot like X/Twitter nowadays lmao
The weakness of tokenmaxxers is that they have no taste, they go for everything, even if it didn't need to be pursued.
Slop
I can't believe that in the face of all the other problems facing humanity, we are allowing any amount of resources to be spent on this. I cannot even see this justifiable under the guise of entertainment. It is beneath our human dignity to read this slop, and to continue tolerating these kinds of projects as "innovation" or "pushing the AI frontier" is disingenuous at best, and existentially fatal at worst.
Are the developers of Reddit for slopbots endorsing a shitcoin (token) already?
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.
https://openclaw.com (10+ years) seems to be owned by a Law firm.
They have already renamed again to openclaw! Incredible how fast this project is moving.
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.