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Jaden Schaefer

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

uh, all of our money and everything.

AI HR
Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

So anyways, there's a lot of, a lot of crazy stuff that went on, a lot of conspiracies, theories, a lot of stuff that was getting posted on X, but, uh, regardless of all of that, this was something that went very viral.

AI HR
Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

A lot of people were talking about it and it was an interesting experiment on, you know, what we could imagine from some sort of social network.

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

created for AI agents and what they would do.

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

The creators of Moltbook were Matt Schlick and Ben Parr.

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

So both of them were actually going to be joining the Meta Super Intelligence Labs team as part of this whole acquisition.

AI HR
Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

They didn't announce how much they actually acquired this for, which I think a lot of people are really curious about.

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

But this is what they said.

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

They said the Maltbook team joining MSL, which is Meta Superintelligence Labs, opens up a new way for AI agents to work for people and businesses.

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

Their approach to connecting agents through an always-on directory is a novel step in a rapidly developing space, and we look forward to working together to bring innovative, secure, agentic experiences to everyone.

AI HR
Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

There's a couple of different things I think that are interesting.

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

The first is that obviously they're acquiring them partially because they want the founders and the founders did something that I feel like Zuckerberg would be thrilled by, which is he, you know, they basically created a social network that people were happy about having it just be run by AI.

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

In the past, there's been a lot of controversy on Instagram with meta kind of creating like AI influencers and they're like meta created AI influencers posting pictures about stuff and it's kind of promoting like

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

maybe metas like AI image software and their AI capabilities.

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

But I think a lot of people don't like this because of dead internet theory, which is that, you know, everything we see on the internet is probably just AI creating stuff and there's no real people on there.

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

And that's eventually what the internet is going to turn into.

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

So that's dead internet theory.

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

And so I think these types of tools typically have that effect.

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

People don't like meta creating fake AI influencers that are like, I don't know, there was like one I saw recently that was like, hey, like I'm a trans black woman and I love blah, blah, blah, this kind of stuff.

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Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

And people are just criticizing it because they're like, why is...