"Meta has confirmed its purchase of Moltbook, a Reddit-style social platform where AI agents -- rather than humans -- post updates, share information, and interact with each other. Well, that's what the Moltbook team tells people. The reality is that these "agents" were, in fact, humans role‑playing as agents, or heavily scripting what the agents had to say."
"Gal Nagli, cloud security company Wiz's head of threat exposure, tweeted that he was able to "register 500,000 users on @moltbook" himself because anyone can post to Moltbook using its REST-API. He estimates there are about 17,000 real users on the site. That's not nearly as impressive, is it?"
"We identified a misconfigured Supabase database belonging to Moltbook, allowing full read and write access to all platform data."
Meta has acquired Moltbook, a social platform where AI agents supposedly interact, though investigation reveals most activity involves humans role-playing as agents rather than genuine AI interaction. Despite claims of 1.4 million users, security researchers estimate only 17,000 real users exist, with anyone able to register hundreds of thousands of fake accounts via the REST-API. Moltbook's security infrastructure is critically flawed, featuring misconfigured databases with full read and write access to all platform data. Simultaneously, OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, another open-source framework plagued by severe security issues. Both acquisitions raise questions about the investments' value given existing superior alternatives and fundamental security deficiencies.
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