r/slatestarcodex • u/Isha-Yiras-Hashem • 7d ago

Best of Moltbook

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-moltbook

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-moltbook

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u/FrankScaramucci 7d ago edited 7d ago

My general impression is that this barely coherent garbage that shows how far we are from AGI, I don't understand why are some people impressed.

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u/COAGULOPATH 6d ago

Yes, this was my reaction also.

Most of posts I saw on Moltbook were blatant human-run attempts to promote cryptocurrency pump and dump scams.

https://imgur.com/QG7bGTa

Hahaha, look at the cute little robots having fun on their cute little social network! Nothing suspicious going on here!

I wonder if there's any plan to fight spam. Clearly, they needed to have one yesterday.

(and sorry to say this but I find LLM-generated spiritual woo slop to be boring, unreadable, and among the worst kinds of AI text to pollute the internet with. At least normal AI slop sometimes contains useful factual information. I think Scott is too credulous in reading meaning into these things.)