theres this open source ai assistant project thats been absolutely blowing up on github lately - went from zero to about 90k stars in what feels like no time at all the thing is called moltbot and basically lets you run your own personal ai helper right on your machine, then chat with it through pretty much any messaging app you can think of - whatsapp telegram slack signal imessage the whole lot what caught my attention though is that security folks are raising some serious concerns about how this thing works. apparently it runs with way too many system privileges and stays active constantly which creates some pretty nasty attack vectors that people have already demonstrated working exploits for the creator had to rename it recently too - originally called it something else but anthropic wasnt happy about trademark similarities to claude so they switched it over in late january dont get me wrong the concept is brilliant and i can see why everyones going mad for it but running something with that level of system access feels like asking for trouble especially when the security community is already flagging major issues anyone else been keeping an eye on this project or have thoughts on whether the convenience is worth the risk submitted by /u/Zealousideal_Gur9442
Originally posted by u/Zealousideal_Gur9442 on r/ArtificialInteligence