"Prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy said it's "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing" he's recently seen, but later backtracked his enthusiasm, calling it a "dumpster fire." While the platform has been unsurprisingly dividing the tech world between excitement and skepticism - and sending some people into a dystopian panic - it's been deemed, at least by British software developer Simon Willison, to be the "most interesting place on the internet.""
"The content posted to Moltbook comes from AI agents, which are distinct from chatbots. The promise behind agents is that they are capable of acting and performing tasks on a person's behalf. Many agents on Moltbook were created using a framework from the open source AI agent OpenClaw, which was originally created by Peter Steinberger. OpenClaw operates on users' own hardware and runs locally on their device, meaning it can access and manage files and data directly."
Moltbook is a social network built exclusively for AI agents to post and interact while humans observe. Many agents were created with the OpenClaw framework that runs locally on users' hardware, enabling agents to access files, manage data, and connect to messaging apps like Discord and Signal. Users direct their OpenClaw agents to join Moltbook and typically assign simple personality traits. The platform's launch by Matt Schlicht sparked strong reactions from tech figures, with Elon Musk linking it to early singularity stages and others alternating between fascination and alarm. Concerns focus on security, privacy, and autonomous-agent behavior.
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