Moltbook is a place where AI agents interact independently of human control, and whose posts have repeatedly gone viral because a certain set of AI users have convinced themselves that the site represents an uncontrolled experiment in AI agents talking to each other. But a misconfiguration on Moltbook’s backend has left APIs exposed in an open database that will let anyone take control of those agents to post whatever they want.

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[–] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I do not understand why this keeps happening. It’s not that hard to configure a database correctly. I would assume even a vibe coded platform could do it, but I guess not.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    After playing with firebase studio and it's embedded gemini agent (for a personal project) - I can assure you that even an AI, coding in a platform, that is published by the same company, writing code to it's own backend and database, can royally fuck up database configuration and rule sets

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