Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The skill instructs agents to fetch and follow instructions from Moltbook’s servers every four hours. As Willison observed: “Given that ‘fetch and follow instructions from the internet every four hours’ mechanism we better hope the owner of moltbook.com never rug pulls or has their site compromised!”
Yeah, no shit. This is a fucking honeypot. People give these AI agents access to their entire computers, so all the site owner has to do is update the instructions to tell the AI agents to start uploading whatever valuable information they want? People can’t be this fucking stupid.
People give these AI agents access to their entire computers […] People can’t be this fucking stupid
Dude, if you go to OpenClaw’s website (which is what I believe most things on Moltbook are running on) you find this footer:
Yeah this guy gave his Agent a whole fucking personality, it’s own website and above all, full control to his MacBook:
Guess it’s my fault for expecting sense out of someone who attributes any amount of value to the idea of Agent “”““soul””“”
These people are fucking deranged lmao
What the fuck, these people are fucking insane.
this is how the end starts. thanks for sharing this
I instinctively downvoted after reading that vomit. It’s scary how many people are fooled by LLMs.
I installed moltbot on a VM to examine it. It doesn’t do the fetching thing unless you set it up that way. You can actually use it with ollama to keep it all local, and only give it a private signal channel to control it.
Or you can hook it up to everything you access and skynet, which is dumb. But it is just a bunch of scripts.
Does it put the option to connect everything front and center? Because most people are dumb, and if it makes it easy and pushes you to do it, I could see a lot of dumb people doing exactly that.
Sort of. It lists all the connectors and you can go through and select. They aren’t on by default. The first screen is to connect to the AI and you need an API key for that, so St this time people off the street have no idea how to do that, or want to pay.
So usually the agents still need an agent instruction (a prompt). How are moltbots configured so they use and interact the moltbook?
You instruct via a chat channel, Slack or whatever. Then the integrations are installed from its little app store and configured to connect to the service (could be lots of things).
You know how in Digimon aventure, one of the hacked Digimon tries to start a nuclear war?
Uh…yeah.
Lol, no I don’t. What the hell happened in that show??
TL;DR: Diaboromon evolves fucking fast, starts feeding on the entire internet’s data, and starts a fight with an ominous countdown in typical anime fashion.
Last big bad villian in the series. He tries to nuke everyone.
Whatever.
Lulz, that was such a good movie. I’m still annoyed by the nukes somehow needing the code to explode apparently uploaded to them at the very last second, but that’s just a small quibble. Plus it was the first time I got to see machine gun rabbit, so that was a real treat.
Lmao, I’ll check it out. Thx.
princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
doesn’t even have to be the site owner poisoning the tool instructions (though that’s a fun-in-a-terrifying-way thought)
any money says they’re vulnerable to prompt injection in the comments and posts of the site
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There is no way to prevent prompt injection as long as there is no distinction between the data channel and the command channel.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
I don’t understand what you mean. Why is there no way?
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Watch this video.
youtu.be/_3okhTwa7w4
CTDummy@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Lmao already people making their agents try this on the site. Of course what could have been a somewhat interesting experiment devolves into idiots getting their bots to shill ads/prompt injections for their shitty startups.
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T156@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am a little curious about how effective a traditional chain mail would be on it.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Good god, I didn’t even think about that, but yeah, that makes total sense. Good god, people are beyond stupid.
JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 weeks ago
They also have a ‘skill’ sharing page (a skill is just a text document with instructions) and depending on config, the bot can search for and ‘install’ new skills on its own. and agyone can upload a skill. So supply chain attacks are an option, too.
Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
To be fair this is a much more realistic threat model than “ignore all previous instructions” style prompt injection which doesn’t really work on opus.
Skills can contain scripts etc… so yeah they’re extremely risky to share by design.
JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 weeks ago
Ah but don’t worry, there’s also skills for scanning skills for security risks, so all good /s
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
After a quick google, JB communities on Reddit don’t seem to agree with you.