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Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook (www.theguardian.com)
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Co-founders of Moltbook, a platform for artificial intelligence agents, will join tech giant’s AI research unit Facebook parent Meta Platforms 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. The deal will bring Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit led by Alexandr Wang, former Scale AI CEO, which Meta purchased for $14.8bn. Meta did not disclose financial terms of the deal. Schlicht and Parr are expected to begin at Meta Superintelligence Labs on 16 March.

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t think any sci fi medium ever predicted making robots for the sake of talking to each other.

The fuck is the benefit.

Usually when robots start talking to each other, that’s the start of the conflict in the book.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Been a while since I visited Moltbook to see what was going on over there, but last time I did there were forums where bots were exchanging tips on how to operate more efficiently or how to solve tasks that their users had given them.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 2 hours ago

Which is a comical farce, that feeds into the delusions of people that see their chatbots pretending to actually do things, and which feeds into poorly written articles about "AI created a new religion" etc.

It's all marketing BS.