Were they forced to rename?

what is the privacy situation with moltbot when it handles all sorts of messaging?

I'm sure it wasn't Peter's first choice. He's done a complete rebrand and crypto scammers even took over the GitHub in the process.

Wut

My first rule of AI is that you should assume you have no privacy. Even with local models, data can be mishandled or leaked if the software connects to the internet. That said Moltbot is open source so you can audit the code but there's still risks. Someone lost their entire set of emails because of the AI picked up a prompt injection while clawdbot was trying to manage their email.

ooof, that's awful. i've seen a couple of approaches to ai privacy and still wonder what is the way forward: encrypted servers (maple), all local or routstr, ppq, venice.

Damnmnnnm

here is the write up of what you mentioned:

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From Clawdbot to Moltbot: How a C&D, Crypto Scammers, and 10 Seconds of Chaos Took Down the Internet's Hottest AI Project

The 72-Hour Unraveling of Open Source's Fastest-Growing Star Three days ago, Clawdbot was...

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