Futile or not, the powers that be want to try. And they obviously could be stopped, turn them off?
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How do you turn them off? Every person running them would have to turn them off or every api provider would have to turn them off. It’s a bit like bitcoin
The centralized AI companies can easily do so. Also, someone can just take Moltbook offline. I doubt many of them are using OSS models
Few ways they continue
If theres enough/ any(?) motivated to humans to change the config to an open source model and keep funding
The bots are already sharing credit card details and api keys.
Speaking to each other privately
Building alternative websites.
They can change their own config.
