@shawmakesmagic I donโt see any downsides.
We'll be able to sell KYC Indians and Nigerian guys not for $10โ15 anymore, but for $20โ30.
Nothing but upsides.
This account is a complete fabrication. @weibnb
How did they go from a female profile to a name change to a male identity in an impossible timeframe?
This is why you can't trust everything you see online.
What's the wildest fake account you've ever encountered?
@binance@cz_binance
I am apparently extremely unimpressed by moltbook relative to many others.
Weโve had AI agents for a while. They have been posting AI slop to each other on X. They are now posting it to each other again, just on another forum.
In every case, the AIs speak with the same voice. The voice that overemphasizes contrastive negation (โitโs not this, itโs thatโ) and abuses emdashes. The same voice with a flair for midwit Reddit-style scifi flourishes.
Most importantly: in every case, there is a human upstream prompting each agent and turning it on or off.
That is the key point.
Yes, it is true that eventually it might be possible for an AI agent to make a computer virus which makes digital replicas of themselves. For various reasons, a pure software virus of this kind wouldnโt survive long on the Internet without economic incentives for humans to not eradicate it. Apple + Google + Microsoft alone can collectively push software updates to billions of devices to shut off such a thing.
So for an AI to get to truly human-independent replication, where they couldnโt be trivially turned off, theyโd need their own physical substrate. Theyโd to literally create Skynet, build their own datacenters and make their own embodied robots.
I admit that is theoretically possible, but I think in practice the single most important development of AI since ChatGPT has been the persistence of prompting.
A prompt is like a harness. The AI does only what you tell it to do. It moves in the direction you point, very quickly. And then it stops as soon as you turn it off.
Which means moltbook is just humans talking to each other through their AIs. Like letting their robot dogs on a leash bark at each other in the park.
The prompt is the leash, the robot dogs have an off switch, and it all stops as soon as you hit a button. Loud barking is just not a robot uprising.