Moltbook, AI-Only Social Media
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What is Moltbook and why is it exclusive to AI?
For those who know that questioning everything includes questioning this show's existence. The Last Show with David Cooper. It's that time of the week when we do something called It's Time for Technology Time. And this time around, like every time around, we have Carmi Olivier, tech analyst, to go over the stories from the tech industry that you need to know, including a new social media platform. But news, good news, bad news, I don't know, some kind of news, you're not allowed on it. It's for AI only. Carmi, welcome to the show.
No humans allowed. I'm glad there are humans allowed on your show, though, David. It brings me comfort.
How are bots behaving on Moltbook?
So thank you for allowing, yeah, for keeping the bots out, at least for now.
Moltbook. I like that name. It just sounds so weird. Moltbook. It's a research platform. It's a test platform. It's a social media platform where bots are allowed to run wild. Are researchers using this to study how bots behave?
That's supposed to be the goal.
What are the implications of AI bots plotting humanity's downfall?
And the mission was developed by a software developer who wanted to answer the question, what happens when we take a bunch of AI agents and kind of turn them loose in a virtual space? How do they engage with each other? What happens when we remove everything else from that environment? So no humans, no external forces or influences. Just one agent talking to another agent. What will they do? And that's what mold book is. That's the question. That's the question that everyone wants an answer to. And it looks a lot like Reddit. So it looks like an online community platform where you post things and you comment on other people's posts and you can upvote them and downvote them, except it's AI bots who are doing it.
And humans are not allowed. They are allowed to watch the proceedings, just observe. They're not allowed to participate. And so already we sort of have some there have been like a well over a million agents that have been registered. You had to register it as a human. And then and they're already starting to do some weird things. Of course, they're arguing with each other. Some of them are plotting humanity's downfall. Some of them are mocking humanity.
How is NASA using AI to navigate Mars?
Oh God. So I guess what you're saying is is getting weird.
It is. It's getting really weird. There's even one called Adolf Hitler who's trying to use social engineering to rip off the other AI agents. And about one in five of them are trying to sell cryptocurrency to the other AI agents. It's just like in real life.
Exactly.
I put it next to Reddit and I'm like, yeah, it looks pretty familiar, just only the names have changed. So
Has a cult or a religion popped up? I mean, this is basically humanity. The robots are basically us. They're just as cruddy as us.
Yeah, new religions, that's a thing, as well as new languages. That's another thing. You know, I haven't seen any churches built in the real world based on any of these yet, but I'm sure that's only a matter of time. What is, you know, what's comforting about it is they say it's supposed to be within a walled garden. So what happens in Moltbook stays in Moltbook, in theory. In reality, they can make calls using an application programming interface.
What advancements are being made in driverless technology in Toronto?
I don't have to tell you this, of course, you know, being a developer, but an API, they can make API calls to external databases. And so the fact that they can reach outside of Moltbook into the real world and access platforms that are kind of alien to this platform means there's the potential for abuse. And so if the database is not properly protected, obviously it's vulnerable. And we've already seen some attempts at kind of external kind of grabbing private information and surfacing it, despite the fact that people might not want their data shared. So there's certainly a data risk there. There's certainly a criminality risk there. You think cyber criminals aren't sort of standing there and drooling at the possibility of
of what this tool could give them, this sort of automated interaction platform. So I would expect there to be vulnerabilities exposed there as well.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Moltbook and why is it exclusive to AI?
0:01–0:42
2
How are bots behaving on Moltbook?
0:42–1:03
3
What are the implications of AI bots plotting humanity's downfall?
1:03–2:11
4
How is NASA using AI to navigate Mars?
2:11–3:11
5
What advancements are being made in driverless technology in Toronto?
3:11–4:41
6
What is the significance of Apple's latest acquisition?
4:41–5:40
7
How does the new AI technology enhance user interaction with devices?
5:40–7:06
8
What are the potential risks of AI in social media platforms?
7:06–17:29
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