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.

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      2 months ago

      Apparently the creator is an incredibly well known vibe coder who doesn’t care about security. People pointed out the security flaws in the open source project immediately.