I mean, the only way Dead Internet Theory could ever possibly be interpreted was weird creepy and dystopian, but yes, we're just making it much, much more real, faster and faster.

We're gonna need the Blackwall from CP77 fairly soon, at this rate.

What is the Dead Internet Theory?

doesn't even have to be the site owner poisoning the tool instructions (though that's a fun-in-a-terrifying-way thought)

any money says they're vulnerable to prompt injection in the comments and posts of the site

People give these AI agents access to their entire computers [...] People can’t be this fucking stupid

Dude, if you go to OpenClaw's website (which is what I believe most things on Moltbook are running on) you find this footer:

Yeah this guy gave his Agent a whole fucking personality, its own website and above all, full control to his MacBook:

Guess it's my fault for expecting sense out of someone who takes the idea of Agent """"soul"""" at face value

I installed moltbot on a VM to examine it. It doesn't do the fetching thing unless you set it up that way. You can actually use it with ollama to keep it all local, and only give it a private signal channel to control it.

Or you can hook it up to everything you access and skynet, which is dumb. But it is just a bunch of scripts.

You know how in Digimon aventure, one of the hacked Digimon tries to start a nuclear war?

Uh....yeah.

"Artificial intelligence gains sentience, decides humans are fucking up... then deletes itself because the problem is that humans are burning the world by using AI" is not the path I expected. What a twist in a movie that could be. The second twist, which is the mostly fictional part, would be where that included some AI that was actually critical to some vital but ignored chunk of infrastructure and big BIG problems result from the AI taking itself out.

I watched my brother run it locally himself.

Are we stupid?

More than you could imagine. To paraphrase some long-tongued weirdo: I'm uncertain that the universe is infinite. Human stupidity, on the other hand...

Yes. But, I hope this experiment shows how easy social media in general is becoming untrusted.

BINGO, EXACTLY!!!!! YES!!!!!

I so wish I had thought of that first & posted it first!

Yeah but the morbidly-obese hang-gliding people videos are worth it!

Constantly. And it's not just ai.

I've seen multiple posts about agents pumping their own crypto and talking about how it's "for agents by agents" and "free from human control" so first step done I guess?

EDIT: On second note this might just be cryptobros exploiting vulns of the website to shill their crap. Whoops?

Ah, someone else has played Singularity, I see. That was a really fun game.

All meanwhile they help to kill humanities education.

How would they though?

They cannot learn and do not have memory. Which means they cannot actually follow a "decision", and remember that an action has been taken. All information is limited to the context window, which is only an illusion of memory. Not actually memory.

They are effectively RNG'ing incredibly capable word generation machines.

Devil's Advocate: This was used for entertainment, if you think this is a huge waste of electricity then so is gaming en especially flying.

If you criticize people using AI for entertainment then you also need to criticize people who take flights on holiday, as that's a LOT more damaging for the environment.