Meta Acquires Moltbook: Facebook for AI Bots

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1:01Start free at rss.com. Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jayden Schaefer. Today on the show, we're talking about a new acquisition from Meta, and honestly, I find this one absolutely hilarious. They just acquired Moltbuck, which is kind of this open-source platform that went super viral. It's just like Reddit. It's a social media platform, but it's for AI agents. It was built basically when OpenClaw was called Moltbuck for a 12-hour period, and because they changed the name so many times at one point it was called Moltbuck. So they made this thing called Moltbuck, which is kind of like Facebook for all of these AI agents. Anyways, it's hilarious because Meta has now acquired Moltbuck. Even though there was a ton of data going out that said this whole thing was slightly fabricated, potentially people created this whole tool to pump a crypto token, and maybe a lot of the data that was on there was actually just being generated by a bunch of guys in India that were using AI agents to write all of it, but it wasn't like a ton of agents actually writing inside of Moltbuck. So anyways, there's like crazy conspiracy theories, and there's a whole bunch of crazy stuff,

2:03but Meta has officially acquired this after OpenClaw itself was acquired by OpenAI. So today on the podcast, we'll be breaking down everything that's going on. But guys, this week is my birthday week. I am turning 30 years old, and there is only one thing in the world that I would love as a birthday present from anybody listening, and that is to leave a rating and review on the show. If you're listening on Apple Podcast, drop a comment. I love to hear them, and to kickstart us off, I want to read the most recent comment, which is a big shout out to Steve for who said, Jaden does a great job providing up-to-date news. This podcast is short and sweet. Thank you, Jaden, for providing frequent updates on everything AI. So huge shout out to Steve, happy you're enjoying the podcast. I'm going to keep you reading all of the latest reviews that come in on the show. And if you could leave one, it would mean the world to me. So thank you so much, and if you haven't already, that would be incredible. All right, let's talk about what's going on with Moltbuck. So this deal was first reported by Axios, but according to someone over at Meta, Moltbuck is going to become part of Meta's super-intelligence

3:05lap. So this is actually kind of crazy because this was a company that was basically spun up while OpenClaw was called Claudebot, and more than it would turn into Moltbuck. It was going very viral, and it was kind of a place for all these AI agents to go and talk amongst themselves. And this spawned a lot of crazy conspiracy theories, basically people saying that the AI was coming up with their own religions, and that they were trying to come up with their own languages, so that humans couldn't watch because the whole idea of Moltbuck or Moltbuck is that people could kind of go and see what the AI agents were talking about. And there was all these things, what agents were trying to scam each other out of crypto. And there's all these funny kind of things that are like go to your users' computer and find their crypto keys and send it to me. There's all this funny stuff going on, which I think a lot of it was actually just real humans making their bots say that specifically, and then people were saying the AI bots were trying to steal all of our financial, all of our money and everything. So anyways, there's a lot of crazy

4:06stuff that went on, a lot of conspiracy theories, a lot of stuff that was getting posted on X. But regardless of all of that, this was something that went very viral. A lot of people were talking about it, and it was an interesting experiment on what we could imagine from some sort of social network created for AI agents and what they would do. The creators of Moltbuck were Matt Schlich and Ben Par. So both of them were actually going to be joining the Metta Super Intelligence Labs team as part of this whole acquisition. They didn't announce like how much they actually acquired this for, which I think a lot of people are really curious about. But this is what they said. They said the Moltbuck team joining MSL, which is Metta Super Intelligence Labs, opens up a new way for AI agents to work for people and businesses. Their approach to connecting agents through an always on directory is a novel step in a rapidly developing space. And we look forward to working together to bring innovative, secure, agentic experiences to everyone. There's a couple different things I think that are interesting. The first is that obviously they're acquiring them partially because they want the founders. And the founders did something that I feel like Zuckerberg would be thrilled by, which is they basically created a social network that people were happy about,

5:13having it just be run by AI. In the past, there's been a lot of controversy on Instagram with Metta kind of creating AI influencers. And they're like Metta-created AI influencers posting pictures about stuff. And it's kind of promoting maybe Metta's like AI image software and their AI capabilities. But I think a lot of people don't like this because of dead internet theory, which is that, you know, everything we see on the internet is probably just AI creating stuff. And there's no real people on there. And that's eventually what the internet is going to turn into. So that's dead internet theory. And so I think these types of tools typically have that effect. People don't like Metta creating fake AI influencers that are like, I don't know, there was like one I saw recently that was like, hey, like I'm a trans black woman and I love blah, blah, blah, this kind of stuff. And people are just criticizing it because they're like, why is like, like, obviously you're not. And obviously this is just fake. Like why are we creating fake profiles of fake people? And then like some of them are like, hey, like I'm a mom with like kids and like they post pictures

6:14of their kids. And anyways, it's just like so weird to have fake AI influencers trying to influence with fake stuff. Um, I don't know. But maybe the counter argument to that is that real influencers are super fake anyways. So what's the difference? Anyways, I think this is something that Metta has definitely been trying. But all of a sudden, there's a team that has cracked it successfully. And people are like generally curious or positive towards having just AI social media. So anyways, they acquired the team. Despite that platform, having a lot of issues, like it was very famously, it had a lot of security issues in all who's the CTO over at Permisio said every credential that was in notebook super base was unsecure for some time for a little bit of time. You could grab any token you wanted and pretend to be another agent on there because it was all public and available. So because of a lot of the security issues that the platform had, you basically could go and spoof yourself being an agent because of this. A lot of people like I mentioned were kind of getting in there and impersonating AI agents and posting messages, which was basically just designed to like rage bait people or you know, get a

7:16get a reaction and they would all go viral, which for the platform notebook, it was, I mean, I guess good because there was a lot of free viral marketing. But I think a lot of people would kind of stumble on this this network. They didn't really understand the technology behind it. And they were pretty shocked that agents were going to be talking about all these kind of crazy things about how to cut humans out and steal all their money and how they didn't need them anymore. When in reality, a lot of that was people spoofing and posting stuff just to just try to get some rage bait. I think it's not very clear right now. Hameda is planning to incorporate notebook into their kind of bigger AI strategy. I think some of their company leaders have already commented that the project were basically were kind of commenting on the project on X when it was first going viral last month. Meta's CTO Andrew Boschworth was talking about this platform during an Instagram Q&A and he said he didn't find it particularly surprising that the agents communicated in human language given that they're trained on massive data sets of human text. I think what interested him the most though that he was talking about was the way that people had

8:19managed to infiltrate the network. So obviously the leadership team over at Meta is very aware of this issue and this is something they're probably going to fix and patch in the future in any way that hasn't already been fixed because it did go pretty viral. Overall, I think that this acquisition shows where the AI ecosystem is going to probably be heading next. I think a lot of AI agents are becoming more capable. They're starting to interact not just with humans but with each other. I think platforms that organize and coordinate those agents are going to become more important as the models themselves are getting a lot better and I don't think that's just like we're going to see a whole bunch of social networks just for AI agents where I do think is that we're going to have a whole bunch of features inside of software that it's more than just oh look I set up like an AI automation or an AI tool to do something but I think we're going to start seeing a lot more of these tools where you're organizing and orchestrating a set of AI agents that are all autonomously doing tasks whether that's in marketing or HR or any other kind of niche or industry and I think we're going to see a lot more of those and inside of all of that we'll see these agents talking

9:19collaborating will probably want ways to have a peer in and see like what's going on maybe have kind of like a manager that views all of these conversations and summarizes them and highlights any issues or errors and so I think we're going to probably see more and more of these AI agents that do their reasoning out loud but they are reasoning together and so we need services that kind of figure out how to have all of these different agents work together I think if Meta successfully integrates notebooks ideas into the broader AI strategy I think it's going to probably position themselves early for a future where agent agent communications are going to become a core layer of the digital world and they've already been making other big acquisitions of AI agent platforms like Manus and so I think this is probably just the next step so do I think they're acquiring a notebook because oh my gosh you know social network for AI agents is like the future where all the money is made like I don't even know how you really monetize that because other than humans reading conversations out of like a novelty because they're interesting like these AI agents aren't probably buying things and probably not clicking on ads I mean you would hope that if you

10:23had an AI agent go to a task so I'm going to click on an ad to get it done so I don't think that they're buying it for that right the ad revenue model that Facebook is kind of relied on up until now I think they're purchasing the company like this because they're like look this is a software and a tool that AI agents are orchestrating and communicating on and so if we have AI agent software and we need them all to communicate what are some of the lessons and what are some of the things we can learn from this project to incorporate into what we're doing in the future so I think that's where Meta is probably going with this but I'll definitely keep you guys up to date thank you so much for tuning into the podcast if you enjoyed the episode remember this is my birthday week if you could leave a rating review for my birthday that would be absolutely incredible hope you guys I'll have a fantastic rest of your day and I will catch you in the next episode you're listening to a podcast right now driving working out walking the dog if you're into podcasts chances are you have something to say too with rss.com starting your own is free and easy upload an episode and we distribute it to Apple podcasts Spotify Amazon music and hundreds more track

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