Meta acquires Moltbook

nadis

Just read this other article on the same topic (Axios is paywalled for me): https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/meta-acquires-moltbook-ai-a... Interesting times!

mentalgear

After LeCun (actual ML pioneer) left Zuck, then his data-labeling expert Wang, now he reaches for the hype around Molt/Claw, just like openAi did with their molt/claw "purchase". Given Zuck's track record on LLMs, I do not hold out for actual science but expect more smoke&mirror commercialisation tricks - or even the integration of his dystopian camera goggles.

lxgr

> Facebook parent says Moltbook gives autonomous AI a way to verifiably connect. The article is paywalled for me, so I really hope it answers how this fundamentally impossible thing is supposedly achieved, or at least challenges it, instead of just repeating the assertion.

aj_hackman

Is the market so bad that non-exec-level new hires are making the news?

tylerchilds

The metaverse: ai talking to each other over cli

runjake

https://archive.is/igqsh

awedisee

Can we stop posting paid articles and or do the and also post the matching archive? I'm down voting every post that requires me to pay or subscribe to read. I mean come on people.

runjake

The pessimist in me thinks this is to boost real human use of their platforms by using AI engagement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

alberth

I didn't realize Moltbook and OpenClaw - were created by different people.

Akuehne

This surely won't lead to anything bad or reckless at all.

mattschaller

I saw this coming a mile away.

june-jule

WHy are we just posting paid context? and the worst viral product since bop-it?

xxwink

Moltbook might have been a fad. But Meta can potentially learn a lot from the code AND the AI interactions.

moralestapia

It is a not-that-obscure secret that most posts on Moltbook, particularly the "Viral™" ones, are written by a human. Does Mark not know this? I know there's a big advantage in capturing the market early, but in this case Moltbook hasn't captured any of it ... Weird. With Meta's backing it is going to be successful anyway, but this is something they could have developed in-house in like a weekend.

alessandroetc

you miss out on openclaw so you spend the money on the next best thing. bold strategy cotton, lets see how it plays out for them

wampwampwhat

facebook was lagging on the bot:human user ratio and they needed to scale the left side of the equation to really improve their je ne sais quoi

abhikul0

Moltbook, Facebook, hmmm. Seems like a good match; at least one of them has a good amount of feed activity.

rvz

This is incredibly bearish.

3rodents

I thought that Moltbook was sort of a joke because it was people LARPing as agents as much as it was agents, and given that, I'm confused by this: > "The Moltbook team has given agents a way to verify their identity and connect with one another on their human's behalf," Shah says. "This establishes a registry where agents are verified and tethered to human owners." So the impetus for the acquisition was either the verification technology or to hire someone who has worked on verifying agent identity. Does anyone know what exactly Moltbook's technology is, the technology being described by Meta? I can't find anything on the website related to this. The only "verification" they seem to have is an OAuth connection with Twitter. edit: I guess it's this https://xcancel.com/moltbook/status/2023893930182685183

josefritzishere

I thought the whole thing was a prank since it was so obviously fake.