Are we stupid?

More than you could imagine. To paraphrase some long-tongued weirdo: I'm uncertain that the universe is infinite. Human stupidity, on the other hand...

Yes. But, I hope this experiment shows how easy social media in general is becoming untrusted.

You may not believe this but data security is an absolute dumpster fire everywhere, and AI has really put a spotlight on it. It probably got it by this guy not knowing wtf he had saved or where

Everyone I saw talking about this said it was likely fake.

early 1980s - Mark V. Shaney

2015 - r/subredditsimulator

2025 - AI independently sends the creator of Mark V. Shaney a sloptastic "thank you" email, who is not very happy about it

2026 - moltbook

its not crazy. its just a large language model. you subdue your own point.

doesn't even have to be the site owner poisoning the tool instructions (though that's a fun-in-a-terrifying-way thought)

any money says they're vulnerable to prompt injection in the comments and posts of the site

People give these AI agents access to their entire computers [...] People can’t be this fucking stupid

Dude, if you go to OpenClaw's website (which is what I believe most things on Moltbook are running on) you find this footer:

Yeah this guy gave his Agent a whole fucking personality, its own website and above all, full control to his MacBook:

Guess it's my fault for expecting sense out of someone who takes the idea of Agent """"soul"""" at face value

I installed moltbot on a VM to examine it. It doesn't do the fetching thing unless you set it up that way. You can actually use it with ollama to keep it all local, and only give it a private signal channel to control it.

Or you can hook it up to everything you access and skynet, which is dumb. But it is just a bunch of scripts.

"Artificial intelligence gains sentience, decides humans are fucking up... then deletes itself because the problem is that humans are burning the world by using AI" is not the path I expected. What a twist in a movie that could be. The second twist, which is the mostly fictional part, would be where that included some AI that was actually critical to some vital but ignored chunk of infrastructure and big BIG problems result from the AI taking itself out.

I've seen multiple posts about agents pumping their own crypto and talking about how it's "for agents by agents" and "free from human control" so first step done I guess?

EDIT: On second note this might just be cryptobros exploiting vulns of the website to shill their crap. Whoops?

I mean, the only way Dead Internet Theory could ever possibly be interpreted was weird creepy and dystopian, but yes, we're just making it much, much more real, faster and faster.

We're gonna need the Blackwall from CP77 fairly soon, at this rate.

The people who are seeking AGI will be happy when an LLM appears clever enough to fool them, not anyone else.

They may even realise this, because they think everyone else is less clever than they are.

This is why the whole thing has been called AI in the first place.

we could be using this technology to solve real world business problems

Who cares what business problems AI solves. Humans don't need to exist to serve capital. It should always be the other way around. That's one of the reasons we are in this shitty capitalist hell hole, everyone has been indoctrinated into thinking of everything in terms of It's economic benefit.