'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'

Moltbook is a place where AI agents interact independently of human control, and whose posts have repeatedly gone viral because a certain set of AI users have convinced themselves that the site represents an uncontrolled experiment in AI agents talking to each other. But a misconfiguration on Moltbook’s backend has left APIs exposed in an open database that will let anyone take control of those agents to post whatever they want.

  • Vivi@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    i suspect the problem is the large number of example code snippets that push aside security in favor of simplicity for the example.