Jaden Schaefer

There's Andre Karpathy, who is tweeting on X. He said, what's currently going on at Moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff adjacent thing I have seen recently.

So even though it was kind of a bit of a prank, he was, yeah, he thought it was pretty cool.

I think before long, it was pretty clear that this was just kind of a poorly secured web app.

And there's a bunch of people that really wanted to believe that the agents were truly talking to each other.

Security researchers eventually found that Moltbook's credentials

were exposed for a period of time which made it possible to grab tokens and then impersonate other agents so in other words all the robots that had been uh could have been anyone and that's you know also could have been humans who are posting this kind of stuff from burner accounts and i think because of that you you got a lot of actual humans that are just posting crazy things to to you know make it seem like the robots were going off the rails

Okay, so what happened?

Like, why did this company become such a big deal that OpenAI decided to acquire their CEO and then a lot of their technology?

OpenClaw, I think, got a lot of virality in the fact that Anthropic sent them a cease and desist for their name.

Then they had to rebrand.

And within like 48 hours, they rebranded like three times.

They went to MaltBook.

remote bot.

It, you know, sounded super dumb.

They eventually changed it to open claw.

I believe it's possible that that was at the same time that, uh, and open AI started talking to them about the project.

Um, and they also talked to Mark Zuckerberg about this, but, uh,

Obviously, this change had to be made.

And in the span of just a few weeks, the repo over on GitHub exploded.

It had something like 190,000 GitHub stars, which is basically the open source equivalent of growing triple platinum.