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  • rook@awful.systems
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    10 hours ago

    Moltbook still going great. Even the enthusiasts are feeling that the shine may have worn off.

    eastside mccarty @eastsidemccarty

    So just to clarify: You created a thing that you now realize you can’t control, and you can’t do anything to secure it, and people that use ClawdBot… err sorry… @openclaw, are own their own to deal with the consequences?! Did I get that right?

    Turns out that combining unsecurable vibe-coded web services with unsecurable chatbots and combining them into an unmoderated public platform can be bad. Also, shrugging off problem reports with “i unno” is a bit of a bad look.

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    eastside mccarty @eastsidemccarty

    Hey @openclaw team, can you do something about these malicious skills in your registry, ClawHub? Last night, one user, hightowerSeu, published more than 200 malicious skills. Each of these tricks the user into installing malware

    Rajveer @RajveerJolly

    Tried to reach out, no response yet. @steipete please address it

    Peter Steinberger @steipete

    Yeah got any ideas how? There’s about 1 Million things people want me to do, I don’t have a magical team that verifies user generated content. Can shut it down or people us their brain when finding skills.

    Rajveer @RajveerJolly

    Sorry homie I don’t have any idea either. I understand you have a lot on your plate perhaps some sort of flagging feature could do wonders

    Peter Steinberger @steipete

    And who reviews the flags? That would be abused right away too

    eastside mccarty @eastsidemccarty

    So just to clarify: You created a thing that you now realize you can’t control, and you can’t do anything to secure it, and people that use ClawdBot… err sorry… @openclaw, are own their own to deal with the consequences?! Did I get that right?

    Rajveer @RajveerJolly

    I hear you. I guess for now people just need to double and check and verify it all bevause there isn’t a simple solution to this

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      there isn’t a simple solution to this

      How about just not creating the problem in the first place. How about that.

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      The people who are worried that Moltbook is where agents are gaining self-consciousness forgot the part of Accelerando where all the AIs were basically scammers (the Slug)