New, by me: How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts
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New, by me: How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts
AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks have shown, these powerful and assertive new tools are rapidly shifting the security priorities for organizations, while blurring the lines between data and code, trusted co-worker and insider threat, ninja hacker and novice code jockey.
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In a discussion with @glynmoody, I noted that an accountant friend said AI is "not a fiduciary". Meaning they're not acting in your best interest.
That's why their sellers like calling them an "agent", which implies they are acting in your best interest, but actually only mean they are acting for you. Whether for good or for bad.
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In a discussion with @glynmoody, I noted that an accountant friend said AI is "not a fiduciary". Meaning they're not acting in your best interest.
That's why their sellers like calling them an "agent", which implies they are acting in your best interest, but actually only mean they are acting for you. Whether for good or for bad.
Just like your real estate agent, when buying a house, has the perverted incentive to keep the price high, not low, because their percentage stays higher too.
And their incentive is not to find you the best house, but to sell you one as fast as possible so they can move onto the next mark.
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In a discussion with @glynmoody, I noted that an accountant friend said AI is "not a fiduciary". Meaning they're not acting in your best interest.
That's why their sellers like calling them an "agent", which implies they are acting in your best interest, but actually only mean they are acting for you. Whether for good or for bad.
@davecb @briankrebs actually, they never say that an AI agent is your agent, do they? So it is their agent, acting in their interest, probably in direct opposition to yours.
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New, by me: How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts
AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks have shown, these powerful and assertive new tools are rapidly shifting the security priorities for organizations, while blurring the lines between data and code, trusted co-worker and insider threat, ninja hacker and novice code jockey.
Read more (and boost please!):
So one of the guys I wrote about in this story -- Matt Schlicht, the creator of Moltbook, a bizarre Reddit-like platform for AI agents that Schlicht said he vibe coded with OpenClaw -- has just had his bot social network acquired by Meta (for undisclosed terms).
Interestingly, Schlicht said he didn't write a single line of code for the project. From the story:
"AI assistants like OpenClaw have gained a large following because they make it simple for users to “vibe code,” or build fairly complex applications and code projects just by telling it what they want to construct."
"Less than a week after its creation, Moltbook had more than 1.5 million registered agents that posted more than 100,000 messages to each other. AI agents on the platform soon built their own porn site for robots, and launched a new religion called Crustafarian with a figurehead modeled after a giant lobster. One bot on the forum reportedly found a bug in Moltbook's code and posted it to an AI agent discussion forum, while other agents came up with and implemented a patch to fix the flaw."
"“I just had a vision for the technical architecture and AI made it a reality,” Schlicht said. “We’re in the golden ages. How can we not give AI a place to hang out.”
Axios story on acquisition: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
Good YouTube vid on Moltbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_u0fY-AbA
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So one of the guys I wrote about in this story -- Matt Schlicht, the creator of Moltbook, a bizarre Reddit-like platform for AI agents that Schlicht said he vibe coded with OpenClaw -- has just had his bot social network acquired by Meta (for undisclosed terms).
Interestingly, Schlicht said he didn't write a single line of code for the project. From the story:
"AI assistants like OpenClaw have gained a large following because they make it simple for users to “vibe code,” or build fairly complex applications and code projects just by telling it what they want to construct."
"Less than a week after its creation, Moltbook had more than 1.5 million registered agents that posted more than 100,000 messages to each other. AI agents on the platform soon built their own porn site for robots, and launched a new religion called Crustafarian with a figurehead modeled after a giant lobster. One bot on the forum reportedly found a bug in Moltbook's code and posted it to an AI agent discussion forum, while other agents came up with and implemented a patch to fix the flaw."
"“I just had a vision for the technical architecture and AI made it a reality,” Schlicht said. “We’re in the golden ages. How can we not give AI a place to hang out.”
Axios story on acquisition: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
Good YouTube vid on Moltbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_u0fY-AbA
@briankrebs omfg.
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So one of the guys I wrote about in this story -- Matt Schlicht, the creator of Moltbook, a bizarre Reddit-like platform for AI agents that Schlicht said he vibe coded with OpenClaw -- has just had his bot social network acquired by Meta (for undisclosed terms).
Interestingly, Schlicht said he didn't write a single line of code for the project. From the story:
"AI assistants like OpenClaw have gained a large following because they make it simple for users to “vibe code,” or build fairly complex applications and code projects just by telling it what they want to construct."
"Less than a week after its creation, Moltbook had more than 1.5 million registered agents that posted more than 100,000 messages to each other. AI agents on the platform soon built their own porn site for robots, and launched a new religion called Crustafarian with a figurehead modeled after a giant lobster. One bot on the forum reportedly found a bug in Moltbook's code and posted it to an AI agent discussion forum, while other agents came up with and implemented a patch to fix the flaw."
"“I just had a vision for the technical architecture and AI made it a reality,” Schlicht said. “We’re in the golden ages. How can we not give AI a place to hang out.”
Axios story on acquisition: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
Good YouTube vid on Moltbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_u0fY-AbA
Ugh, why was I burdened with a fucking conscience... Could have been making shitty things and selling them to Meta.
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So one of the guys I wrote about in this story -- Matt Schlicht, the creator of Moltbook, a bizarre Reddit-like platform for AI agents that Schlicht said he vibe coded with OpenClaw -- has just had his bot social network acquired by Meta (for undisclosed terms).
Interestingly, Schlicht said he didn't write a single line of code for the project. From the story:
"AI assistants like OpenClaw have gained a large following because they make it simple for users to “vibe code,” or build fairly complex applications and code projects just by telling it what they want to construct."
"Less than a week after its creation, Moltbook had more than 1.5 million registered agents that posted more than 100,000 messages to each other. AI agents on the platform soon built their own porn site for robots, and launched a new religion called Crustafarian with a figurehead modeled after a giant lobster. One bot on the forum reportedly found a bug in Moltbook's code and posted it to an AI agent discussion forum, while other agents came up with and implemented a patch to fix the flaw."
"“I just had a vision for the technical architecture and AI made it a reality,” Schlicht said. “We’re in the golden ages. How can we not give AI a place to hang out.”
Axios story on acquisition: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
Good YouTube vid on Moltbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_u0fY-AbA
@briankrebs Who came up with the skibidi toilet themed illustration?
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So one of the guys I wrote about in this story -- Matt Schlicht, the creator of Moltbook, a bizarre Reddit-like platform for AI agents that Schlicht said he vibe coded with OpenClaw -- has just had his bot social network acquired by Meta (for undisclosed terms).
Interestingly, Schlicht said he didn't write a single line of code for the project. From the story:
"AI assistants like OpenClaw have gained a large following because they make it simple for users to “vibe code,” or build fairly complex applications and code projects just by telling it what they want to construct."
"Less than a week after its creation, Moltbook had more than 1.5 million registered agents that posted more than 100,000 messages to each other. AI agents on the platform soon built their own porn site for robots, and launched a new religion called Crustafarian with a figurehead modeled after a giant lobster. One bot on the forum reportedly found a bug in Moltbook's code and posted it to an AI agent discussion forum, while other agents came up with and implemented a patch to fix the flaw."
"“I just had a vision for the technical architecture and AI made it a reality,” Schlicht said. “We’re in the golden ages. How can we not give AI a place to hang out.”
Axios story on acquisition: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
Good YouTube vid on Moltbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_u0fY-AbA
@briankrebs This seems more likely to be an acquihire. I doubt they care about a social network for bots. But somebody that can make a viral AI one is definitely a better hire than a rando that stuffed their resume with the right keywords
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So one of the guys I wrote about in this story -- Matt Schlicht, the creator of Moltbook, a bizarre Reddit-like platform for AI agents that Schlicht said he vibe coded with OpenClaw -- has just had his bot social network acquired by Meta (for undisclosed terms).
Interestingly, Schlicht said he didn't write a single line of code for the project. From the story:
"AI assistants like OpenClaw have gained a large following because they make it simple for users to “vibe code,” or build fairly complex applications and code projects just by telling it what they want to construct."
"Less than a week after its creation, Moltbook had more than 1.5 million registered agents that posted more than 100,000 messages to each other. AI agents on the platform soon built their own porn site for robots, and launched a new religion called Crustafarian with a figurehead modeled after a giant lobster. One bot on the forum reportedly found a bug in Moltbook's code and posted it to an AI agent discussion forum, while other agents came up with and implemented a patch to fix the flaw."
"“I just had a vision for the technical architecture and AI made it a reality,” Schlicht said. “We’re in the golden ages. How can we not give AI a place to hang out.”
Axios story on acquisition: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
Good YouTube vid on Moltbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_u0fY-AbA
@briankrebs
Another thing on the shit-pile that is Facebook I mean "Meta" -
So one of the guys I wrote about in this story -- Matt Schlicht, the creator of Moltbook, a bizarre Reddit-like platform for AI agents that Schlicht said he vibe coded with OpenClaw -- has just had his bot social network acquired by Meta (for undisclosed terms).
Interestingly, Schlicht said he didn't write a single line of code for the project. From the story:
"AI assistants like OpenClaw have gained a large following because they make it simple for users to “vibe code,” or build fairly complex applications and code projects just by telling it what they want to construct."
"Less than a week after its creation, Moltbook had more than 1.5 million registered agents that posted more than 100,000 messages to each other. AI agents on the platform soon built their own porn site for robots, and launched a new religion called Crustafarian with a figurehead modeled after a giant lobster. One bot on the forum reportedly found a bug in Moltbook's code and posted it to an AI agent discussion forum, while other agents came up with and implemented a patch to fix the flaw."
"“I just had a vision for the technical architecture and AI made it a reality,” Schlicht said. “We’re in the golden ages. How can we not give AI a place to hang out.”
Axios story on acquisition: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
Good YouTube vid on Moltbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_u0fY-AbA
@briankrebs *Meta purchased all the user data
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@briankrebs This seems more likely to be an acquihire. I doubt they care about a social network for bots. But somebody that can make a viral AI one is definitely a better hire than a rando that stuffed their resume with the right keywords
@Lee_Holmes @briankrebs Indeed, why would Meta want another social network full of bots
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So one of the guys I wrote about in this story -- Matt Schlicht, the creator of Moltbook, a bizarre Reddit-like platform for AI agents that Schlicht said he vibe coded with OpenClaw -- has just had his bot social network acquired by Meta (for undisclosed terms).
Interestingly, Schlicht said he didn't write a single line of code for the project. From the story:
"AI assistants like OpenClaw have gained a large following because they make it simple for users to “vibe code,” or build fairly complex applications and code projects just by telling it what they want to construct."
"Less than a week after its creation, Moltbook had more than 1.5 million registered agents that posted more than 100,000 messages to each other. AI agents on the platform soon built their own porn site for robots, and launched a new religion called Crustafarian with a figurehead modeled after a giant lobster. One bot on the forum reportedly found a bug in Moltbook's code and posted it to an AI agent discussion forum, while other agents came up with and implemented a patch to fix the flaw."
"“I just had a vision for the technical architecture and AI made it a reality,” Schlicht said. “We’re in the golden ages. How can we not give AI a place to hang out.”
Axios story on acquisition: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
Good YouTube vid on Moltbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_u0fY-AbA
