Clawdbot is an exciting new way to spend $300/day on AI with Anthropic.
It's a personal assistant? and it's a shitty security disaster of course
my theory: Anthropic is going for the mobile game model and inducing gambling addiction in the most horrible SV AI bros
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760237
EDIT: oh lol from reddit:
> "clawdbot" is a crypto currency fueled product with loads of aggresive fans
that explains quite a lot
@davidgerard The “gatcha" model is definitely a part of it. Last few weeks I’ve been up close and personal with people deep into this shit in multiple ways (vibe-coders, chatbot fanciers, etc) and their brains are utterly pickled. I haven't seen so many disorders on display since the last serial killer convention.
@angry_drunk you must understand they've never been so *effective* get with the programme or be left behind
@davidgerard Yeah, Friday I had to listen to three separate dipshit CEOs prattle on about how I was falling behind because I don't spend hours a day letting an auto-complete algorithm tell me I'm a special boy.
@davidgerard It’s truly heartbreaking to see Pete S descend into AI-fueled madness. Another great programmer got their brains eaten by the delusion machine.
@drahardja what did he do before this?
they got apenwarr too, which i was 😮
@davidgerard Pete has been a prolific coder and Apple tech blogger before he made a sharp turn and went all-AI. https://steipete.me
@davidgerard I want to know why they think this banal chat is a good example of what this trash fire can do?!
@akent a bit of endearing racism for the SV tech bros!
EDIT: who are also crypto bros
@davidgerard I made the mistake of reading the comments and now my brain hurts.
@davidgerard $300/day? Shit, I'll fuck up your code and your calendar and everything else on your computer for half that! (I promise I have substantive things to say, too, but the shitposting is just too cathartic.)
@davidgerard If there are no AI haters, then I am dead.
@theorangetheme working on hating AI after i'm dead too
@davidgerard @theorangetheme we have a wonderful opportunity for you! DavidGerardBot, trained on your image and memories, only $100/month
@davidgerard God: "So like... you know this is eternal bliss, right?"
Me: "I'm BUSY."
@theorangetheme my wife concurs that those two lines are the most me thing we've ever read
@davidgerard they’re HAVING the TIME of their LIVES !!
@davidgerard it got renamed to moltbot very soon after it being a fucking security disaster got noticed: https://github.com/moltbot/moltbot
very normal behavior for the uhh, checks duckduckgo, “personal AI assistant that went viral in a matter of weeks” and serves only to burn its users’ money and exfiltrate their data
there are far too many files in the root of this repo wtf
@davidgerard how dare you imply there’s anything the matter with JiaTanBot, the fleet of LLM agents that have access to all of your credentials on all your systems all at once
anyway it’s named cokebot now to reflect our commitment to make it cheaper and less addictive
@zzt see edit, turns out it's a fuckin crypto project looollllll
@davidgerard @zzt I think someone hijacked the abandoned names to make a crypto scam. https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1qowzln/clawdbot_creator_disowns_crypto_after_scammers/
@drahardja @zzt * hacked the scam to make another scam
looks like it's the meme coin crew yegge went all in with
@davidgerard @zzt Everything is gambling. Everything is computer.
@theorangetheme @davidgerard @zzt I’ve seen compelling arguments that, here in the U.S. at least, the normalization of gambling via the legalization of sports betting really opened to floodgates to a lot of this brain-pickled bullshit.
@davidgerard oh my god every fucking time!
@zzt not sure they are bright enough to be jia tan bot
@davidgerard @zzt given that the moral of xz was "don't trust people negging open source maintainers", the entire industry is jia tanning
@davidgerard we seriously don't understand why one would want to run code that nobody wrote, let alone feed their entire browser database, app token, and maildir tree into it, but of course people are just jumping at the chance, enthusiastic to do so
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