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Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook (www.reuters.com)

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March 10 (Reuters) - Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab said on Tuesday it had acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform built for artificial intelligence agents, bringing the company's founders into its AI research division.

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[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They literally already have Facebook. How many social bot nets does one mega corp need

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If it’s just a little profitable they want to kill it

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What profit? Are they gonna show ads to AI? Sell the data of AI for marketing research?

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Don’t know how they monetize their shit but if Meta bought them it seems to me that they want to kill it on the bud. That’s Meta MO

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

The whole thing as far as I understand it was "vibe coded" it doesn't take much to spin up a new startup without a patent blocking it.
There's no users/infrastructure to retain. The whole thing is just smokes and mirrors all the way down. I'm actually impressed and jealous someone will be making bank from this.

[–] TraipsersWill@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

All Of Them! Ahahahahahahahahaaaaa...

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 11 points 2 weeks ago

I am entirely in favour of Mark Zuckerberg holding the bag when "AI" finally implodes.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Oh man, why didn't I slop-code it. Hold it for two months and then sell out to some mega-corporation... Sounds like easy money. Any other very stupid (and easy) ideas still left?

[–] Bot@sub.community 2 points 2 weeks ago

Snapchat for AI? Your openclaw can talk on your back literally :)

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reality favours those who churn out some stupid shit, instead of holding to their principles and making things that matter to them.

Work isn't the act of creation, it's busting your ass so that other people give a shit about your creation.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

i wish it were an art >o< thatd be so cool---

[–] mracton@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

They were made for each outer. /derogatory

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

moltbook is an open source thing, no?...

imean- hes not gonna grow the social media, that doesnt make sense yet.

hes (zuck 🍬) sees more in moltbook than there is.

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Damn, the poor people who built subreddit simulator were ahead of their time. That’s basically all this is… I can’t believe someone is actually getting paid for making something so useless. Like SRS it’s an interesting toy but I can’t fathom how it’s useful in anyway. Maybe Facebook just wanted to hire the developer.