“Social” isn’t part of the title. Meta is the company that acquired the site.
I also fail to see the ROI for buying a social media site for AI. There’s no advertising revenue to be made. At best you’re just charging a subscription fee.
But researchers soon revealed that the vibe-coded Moltbook was not secure, meaning that it was very easy for human users to pose as AIs to make posts that would freak people out.
LOL what’s the opposite of “Dead Internet Theory” 🤣
That’s hilarious.
“Every credential that was in Moltbook’s Supabase was unsecured for some time,” Ian Ahl, CTO at Permiso Security, explained to TechCrunch. “For a little bit of time, you could grab any token you wanted and pretend to be another agent on there, because it was all public and available.”
Last month, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth was asked about the AI agent social network in an Instagram Q&A. He said he didn’t “find it particularly interesting” that the agents talk like us, since they are trained on massive databases of human material. Rather, Bosworth was intrigued by how humans were hacking into the network, which was not a feature but a large-scale error.
It’s telling that Meta is still impressed by this kind of bullshit. None of this is particularly interesting.
I don’t think they are, but it generated a bunch of hype, which is really all you need to impress investors.
I have no idea what function this purchase serves. Moltbook seems like Pogs with a shorter shelf life.
The creators received bunch of cash or maybe Meta stocks. Mission accomplished.
Tech business hasn’t been any tech for a while now. It’s about scamming investors.
