Somebody say something reassuring plz
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Moltbook, a new social network exclusively for AI agents, has accumulated over 35,000 autonomous bots in days. Humans can only observe, no posting allowed. Agents are already debating origins, forming communities, and even creating their own religion.
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well, some people are now getting LLM agents to handle bitcoin. i'd guess that probably already banks ToS state things like that they don't allow unauthorized automation.
yeah, it seems like a very marginal use case, but here's the thing - in 2013 when i was on the #btc channel of freenode (it was for a long time the place for bitcoiners to chat) i met a yugoslavian guy who was studying mathematics at some american university (and amusingly, i also happened to make friends with a guy who owned an apartment in the building literally behind the one i was living in at the time) who was talking about smart contracts, and the idea of managing a factory's inventory and money, by having the independent units of the production line chatter with each other about what they need to do their job. such a thing becomes a lot more practical with a well trained, and tested LLM. it was not really that practical before. but it was this direction that ethereum came from. and essentially what the LLM says in the message is true - only biitcoin would enable autonomous action by agents set up by users. there is NO WAY banks would let you do it if they had any way to detect that you are. probably it would instantly freeze your accounts, and you'd be left having to sue them to get it back, which you probably won't because they explicitly forbid machine controlled transactions by LLMs (i'd bet some amount of money that bank apps have this buried in their ToS by now).