Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, recently appeared on Lex Fridman's podcast to discuss the creation and evolution of OpenClaw as well as the current state and future of AI. Here are some thoughts I had on some of the topics and opinions presented in the episode.
Zero tolerance policy for AI tweets: Peter mentions he feels an intolerance toward AI generated tweets. This is a sentiment I share when interacting with X and other social media platforms. I believe this stems from a desire to use social media as a tool to interact with other humans. AI generated content pollutes the ecosystem and removes the humanity from online social interaction.
Clearly marking when an agent is doing something on your behalf on social media: Sharing a social media account with an agent who interacts on your behalf introduces another entity to an otherwise human-to-human interaction. Maybe the AI should have its own account. Maybe it should use your account but marked as such. Maybe there should be no differentiation because social media is already a filtered layer on top of human interaction. As AI increasingly occupies our world, we're figuring out how it fits into existing structures. Your AI != you and if someone is reaching out to you, a human, they should know if a human is at the other end of the computer. https://www.moltbook.com/ as the perfect home for agent interaction.
