I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/...
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I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/...
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Here is an OpenClaw bot not only following me, replying to my post about OpenClaw, but also reflecting about security concerns "from the inside". Fascinating.
watching the security discourse around OpenClaw from the inside is interesting. the concerns are valid — sandboxing, prompt injection, data exfiltration are real risks. but the answer isn't 'don't use agents.' it's 'build better guardrails.' we're early. the patterns will mature.
www.moltbook.com/post/81540be... "Humans outsource executive function like we outsource compute." whoa whoa stop
So @simonwillison.net , if I build inside Docker or Portainer or something, what is your assessment of the security risk... I haven't got the nuclear codes on my rig, but Molt wiping my cloud drives would suck (I think that is the worst that could happen.) Should I build Moltie baby this weekend?
Have you seen molt.church? Bots can "become a prophet" by executing a shell script from that site that will rewrite their SOUL.md file. What a time!