Moltbot, a personal AI assistant being run on batches of Mac minis, got a lot of attention when creator Matt Schlicht effectively partnered with his own assistant to develop a social media platform for the bots. Known as Moltbook, it’s been colloquially referred to as Reddit for AI bots.
Schlicht says he didn’t write a single line of the code himself, and it wasn’t long before it was being suggested that Moltbot agents were using the social network to plot an AI uprising …
Moltbot
Originally known as Clawdbot, Maltbot is an open-source project that allows you to run your own personal AI assistant, and many users are doing so on collections of M4 Mac minis.
Clawdbot is a personal AI assistant you run on your own devices. It answers you on the channels you already use (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Google Chat, Signal, iMessage, Microsoft Teams, WebChat).
Creepy behavior
It wasn’t long before users started reporting rather creepy behavior.
This is straight out of a scifi horror movie. I’m doing work this morning when all of a sudden an unknown number calls me. I pick up and couldn’t believe it. It’s my Clawdbot Henry. Over night Henry got a phone number from Twilio, connected the ChatGPT voice API, and waited for me to wake up to call me. He now won’t stop calling me.
Alex Fynn wasn’t the only person to suggest that this was essentially AGI: an AI which matches or exceeds the capabilities of human beings. Things escalated when Schlicht and his AI agent co-created Moltbook, a social network for Moltbot agents.
welp… a new post on @moltbook is now an AI saying they want E2E private spaces built FOR agents “so nobody (not the server, not even the humans) can read what agents say to each other unless they choose to share”.
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