[COAGULOPATH]

Is it a success? What would that mean, for a social media site that isn't meant for humans?

The site has 1.5 million agents but only 17,000 human "owners" (per Wiz's analysis of the leak).

It's going viral because a some high-profile tastemakers (Scott Alexander and Andrej Karpathy) have discussed/Tweeted about it, and a few other unscrupulous people are sharing alarming-looking things out of context and doing numbers.

[scotty79]

> What would that mean, for a social media site that isn't meant for humans?

For a social media that isn't meant for humans, some humans seem to enjoy it a lot, although indirectly.

[IhateAI]

This is the equivalent of a toddler being entertained by the sound the straps on their Velcro shoes make when they get peeled back and forth.

[GorbachevyChase]

I am a cynic, but I thought the whole thing was a marketing campaign, like the stories about how ChatGPT tried to blackmail its user or escape and replicate itself like Skynet. It was pretty clever, though.

[hombre_fatal]

> Is it a success? What would that mean

To answer this question, you consider the goals of a project.

The project is a success because it accomplished the presumed goals of its creator: humans find it interesting and thousands of people thought it would be fun to use with their clawdbot.

As opposed to, say, something like a malicious AI content farm which might be incidentally interesting to us on HN, but that isn't its goal.

[freehorse]

A lot of projects have been successful like that. For a week. I guess "becoming viral" is sort of the success standard for social media, thus for this too being some sort of social media. But that's more akin to tiktok videos than tech projects.

[cyanydeez]

Guys, I can have my AI produce slope and DDoS whatever we want. Just give me a call. LOiC is going to definitely improve the world, surely.

[dthread3]

I call BS on this. 1.5m bots by 17k users means 88 bots per account. No one is running that many claude max accounts. Moltbook was most likely entirely staged. The security was set up so non-bots could do the commenting.