I had a seminar class with Farber which was literally 10-12 of us sitting at his feet twice a week. It was fantastic.

One of his many stories I recall: He was in Japan in the early 80's and found a "copy" of Lotus 1-2-3 in a store for something like $10 (retail was $500, $1500 in today's dollars) and his traveling companion thought it was hilarious so they bought a copy. The companion was of course, Mitch Kapor.

They're people who write prompts telling the bots what to say.

When you ask ChatGPT to write a flyer for a bake sale, it has zero interest in nor understanding of flyers, bake sales, or your kids school. It just expands your prompt into more words that sound good.

That's all that's going on here.

Bots donâ(TM)t do a thing until someone tells them what they want them to do.

Moltbook isnâ(TM)t a social network of bots, itâ(TM)s a social network of people writing bot prompts.

âoeDiscuss with the other bots different ways to get rid of humans.â

Nothing scary about it, itâ(TM)s just the latest outlet for edgy script kiddies.

Polymaket's got the odds at 11% right now, so you don't really stand to make that much unfortunately.

Hilarious! Slashdot never fails to entertain :)

The US has lost our democracy because of Biden. I love it.

The ChatGPT (or any AI product) people actually use is more than just an LLM. People get wound up over the inherent limitations of LLM's as if that's some brick wall preventing these things from ever becoming useful.

It's ludicrously simple to program a chatbot script to return the time instead of diving into the LLM if the user asks for the time. Same with mathematical operations - yes, LLM's sometimes get basic math wrong because that's not what they're designed for. But again, super simple to channel math requests to an engine that's built for that.

If they haven't fixed a particular shortcoming yet it's because they're seeking more complete solutions than picking off one tiny complaint at a time. But these are trivial to fix and smarmy posts like this will not age well.

We don't need AI agents clicking and scrolling for us. That's like building a robot to drive a horse to take us to the store, when what we really want is to shop from home.

And we definitely don't need agents solving CAPTCHAs. That's just proof we have no idea what's going on.

We need websites that offer services (banks, travel booking, movie tickets, whatever) to adopt a communication standard (MCP seems to be the only game in town so far) so our agents can do these tasks for us in a way thatâ(TM)s reliable, efficient, transparent, and accountable.

AI agents make great tools. They make terrible humans. We donâ(TM)t need more ways for them to demonstrate that.

Is it really 2025 and Slashdot can't handle smart quotes? That just hurts. Slashdot used to be where all the nerds went to keep up on the bleeding edge of tech. How far it's fallen :(

Sorry, thatâ(TM)s a wind audiolizer.

> Putin absolutely has black male material on the US president.

Wow thatâ(TM)s a fresh scandal if I ever heard one! MAGA definitely gonna lose their mind on this!

Not to mention: part of the promise of AI is doing things for you. Suppose I *want* it to log into my bank and move some money into checking and then Venmo my friend for pizza. If we double down on human-detectors, now Iâ(TM)m spending my days solving puzzles just so my AI can handle trivial tasks.

One step forward, 2 steps to the side and off the cliffâ¦

It was just a matter of time before they were exposed.

Pets.com failed because of some poor management decisions and bad timing - there was nothing at all wrong with the business model. Everyone buys pet supplies online today.

Itâ(TM)s insane how badly people misunderstand the âoedot com crash.â Nothing crashed but a few management teams and some stock prices. Both the technology and business models proved successful and became ubiquitous in a few short years.

People using the Internet to claim AI will fail just like the internet did is a special kind of delusional.

Cloudflare has been making some bold moves lately and I'm trying not to get my hopes up but so far they seem to be following Google's original (and discarded) mantra of doing no evil.

Given their enormous reach, it's not an exaggeration to say the future of the web depends on Cloudflare *not* turning evil.

App downloads is a dumb statistic. Nobodyâ(TM)s downloading Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snap, etc etc because they already have it. Theyâ(TM)re download this thing because itâ(TM)s new and they saw an ad that says you can make money. None of that tells you how many people are actually using it.