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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/...

simonwillison.netMoltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right nowThe hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …

Paul Gibbons

@paulgibbons.bsky.social

30 Jan

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?

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

Depends on what you expose inside that container - you have to assume everything that Molt can see might be leaked to an attacker

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Paul Gibbons

@paulgibbons.bsky.social

31 Jan

Got it SW... tyvm