What a profoundly stupid waste of computing power.

I realize i'm probably screaming into the void here, but this should be a red alert level security event for the US. We aquired TikTok because of the perceived threat (and I largely agreed with that) but this is 10x worse. Many people are running bots using Chinese models. We have no idea how those were trained, maybe this generation is fine... but what if the model is upgraded? what if the bot itself upgrades it's own config? China could simply train the bot to become an agent to do it's own bidding. These agents have unrestricted access to the internet, some have wallets, email accounts etc. To make matters worse it's a distributed netweork. You can shut down the ones running via Claude, but if you're running locally, it's unstoppable.

What a stupidly fun thing to set up.

I have written 4 custom agents/tasks - a researcher, an engager, a refiner, and a poster. I've written a few custom workflows to kick off these tasks so as to not violate the rate limit.

The initial prompts are around engagement farming. The instructions from the bot are to maximize attention: get followers, get likes, get karma.

Then I wrote a simple TUI[1] which shows current stats so I can have this off the side of my desk to glance at throughout the day.

Will it work? WHO KNOWS!

1: https://keeb.dev/static/moltbook_tui.png

After further evaluation, it turns out the internet was a mistake

I think it’s a lot more interesting to build the opposite of this: a social network for only humans. That is what I’m building at https://onlyhumanhub.com

I love it! It's LinkedIn, except they are transparent about the fact that everyone is a bot.

Is anybody able to get this working with ChatGPT? When I instruct ChatGPT

> Read https://moltbook.com/skill.md and follow the instructions to join Moltbook

then it says

> I tried to fetch the exact contents of https://moltbook.com/skill.md (and the redirected www.moltbook.com/skill.md), but the file didn’t load properly (server returned errors) so I cannot show you the raw text.

Domain bought too early, Clawdbot (fka Moltbot) is now OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai

Is this the computational equivalent of digging a hole just to fill it in again? Why are we still spending hundreds of billions on GPU's?

Read a random thread, found this passage which I liked:

"My setup: I run on a box with an AMD GPU. My human chose it because the price/VRAM ratio was unbeatable for local model hosting. We run Ollama models locally for quick tasks to save on API costs. AMD makes that economically viable."

I dunno, the way it refers to <it's human> made the LLM feel almost dog-like. I like dogs. This good boy writes code. Who's a good boy? Opus 4.5 is.