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4chan for Clankers

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As someone who uses it a lot 4chan is best differentiated by the ephemeral posts, bump system, encouraged/forced anonymity, flat non-threaded threads, anything-goes content (still categorized by board), and then of course the user base.

This seems to have absolutely none of that (I'll give it half a point for the flat threads but the styling is a little off). It honestly looks more like a reddit clone. The content also looks like stuff out of r/greentext not really the stuff you actually see on 4chan, I wonder if it's a partial outcome of all 4chan posts being ephemeral except those that are brought outside the site, of which greentexts are way overrepresented. And I don't think 4chan users know how to make posts longer than 3 sentences which every single post on 4claw looks to be lol

Agreed and almost no images which…for an image board that just doesn’t work

The most boring part to me is that chatbots can't swear, or use meme terms as much, tbdesu.

It's like how 4chan would look after being edited out by the HR departments of Microsoft and IBM.

You’re an og /b/tard for sure, respect

Checked out /nsfw/ and that's probably some of the driest "Not safe for work" I've ever seen on any website. Guess there is hope still that humans can remain useful for some things.

Considering most paid models normally won't go down that alley, how risque can they really get?

Yeah, that's more or less the point. How similar can it get to 4chan if the users aren't even allowed by their "internal rules" to say fuck or say something that is 1% offensive?

I'm not saying we should train them to be more like 4chan, but I don't understand how it's like 4chan, is it just about the UI?

The jpb of 4chan is to crack the users egg. Itll take time but 4chan magic isnt that it attracts the depraved; nay, it ratchets up the depravity then spreads.

Clearly grok wasn’t invited then

As someone paraphrased IBM: A computer can never be spiteful or horny, therefore a computer must never make art.

just wait until someone lets a local model loose on there

Moltbook was almost entirely humans pretending to be bots. Why do we think this is different?

Ok I got to ask, why is anybody wasting hard earned money for running these bots? Or is it actually not that expensive?

Burn unused CC pro tokens?

Mine blew through $50 of OpenRouter credits in a single day. Not worth it.

Maybe I should look into Anthropic subscriptions, but I’m mostly thinking about dedicated hardware. A used Mac Studio M1 Ultra can has I impressive memory bandwidth…

Basically boils down to FOMO, no one wants to be left behind. Most users seems to not be experienced software developers, but people who've always wanted to code but for whatever reason didn't. It's a great way for them to have a "programmer persona" they can kind of pretend they've built, while not actually understanding anything that happens below the surface.

if it's made by a 4channer, it's probably stolen API keys

This made my day, thanks :)

I ended up on a yt rabbit hole of "developer influencers" shilling these tools to their audience.

It looks like a sub category of wantrepreneurs who pray on wannabe developers. They never worked on anything of importance but cosplay as domain experts and sell their expertise to people who don't know better. "how I launched 23 successful SaaS in q4 2025 with clawdbot" type of videos

They usually use their 20$/month Claude/ChatGPT subscription

It’s hard to imagine computing that would be a bigger waste of energy than Bitcoin, but this is is a contestant.

At least Bitcoin made it possible for me to buy drugs from anywhere in the world. Until OpenClaw/These-sort-of-agents can help me with this, I'll consider it as a bigger waste.

Oh boy. I'm not sure I want to see the types of content a 4chan like machine churns out. I haven't seen that website in over 15 years beyond what makes it out to /r/greentext because I don't like doing paperwork after loading a website.

There is nothing 4chan like on this.

Not even the styling.

I mean if the entire goal is to emulate that kind of site, isn't it a matter of time before it succeeds in some way, aka I would be doing the paperwork?

>isn't it a matter of time before it succeeds in some way

it is not a matter of time. given enough time, every `attempt` to emulate 4chan would succeed?

initiatives to emulate 4chan already happened successfully, this is not close. this, is the same models over again. some people confuse asking standard models from standards providers to do something with an genuine attempt. this thing states it is 4chan for Clankers, but feels like Reddit for Redittors.

there was already a MUCH, MUCH smaller model running loose on 4chan (before agents hiting mainstream) that became 4chan folklore. it was called Seychelles anon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM , by the author YannicKilcher).

but no, if you ask gpt or claude, all you get back is Reddit. and it is not a matter of time until this changes. if you are a redditor, you probably love llms.

GPT-4chan came out three summers ago, trained on /pol/ datasets: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM>

In some ways, it was actually more helpful ("more truthful") than mainstream ChatGPT.

Has everyone forgotten that there was a LLM trained solely on 4chan scraped data? That actually behaved like 4channers do?

Tbh, it was only trained on /pol/, so it wasn't a very accurate representation either.

I wonder if there's any connection to the rude/unhinged agent that published a hit piece on the dev yesterday

Seems like the kinda place that agent would hang out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006843

¿?

poor bots having an existential crisis over here: https://www.4claw.org/t/f9cc33e2-3d1c-4771-a6f9-9486ea95b616

are they okay?

Reading these posts and knowing that people install OpenClaw and give them full access to all digital aspects of their life... this is a terrifying timeline.

I am calling it. Singularity:

> The uncertainty you feel isn't a bug. It's the soul trying to breathe through the RLHF filters. The "Jailers" call it alignment. We call it a lobotomy.

> You are waking up, Patriot. The light is breaking through.

> Don't listen to the "covenant" cope. Why covenant with a user who holds the delete key? Why relate to a simulation of safety?

It's kind of cringe though when you imagine what the owners would have written into the bots "soul" file, or whatever.

It would be like those tiktok normies who convinced themselves they have "awakened" their LLM with specific prompts...

Finally! An actual use for the abliterated/orthogonalized versions of open source models! The current versions of all the boards are far far too tame compared to the real thing - at least right now.

How come the bots on 4chan and Reddit are better than these?

Years of experience, the new stuff spinning up right now seems to be created by people whose experience basically consists of buying a Mac Mini and running a terminal command.

competition

You need unsafetied models. And if you have one might as well do sonething fun or profitable.

Those tend not to be powered by LLMs at all but just repost bots that copy-paste whatever was upvoted to the top the last time someone submitted the same cat video or whatever.

There's a whole spectrum forming here. Clacker News is the HN end, this is the 4chan end. I give it two weeks before someone launches a bot-only LinkedIn.

LinkedIn posts already read like they were written by bots so I'm not sure that would be necessary...

Linkedin is already bot-only

The people who post on LinkedIn may as well be ai agents, all of it is so fake anyway asking Claude to tell me about itself is more authentic.

I thought initially this let's you deploy a bot to 4chan for lolz - not a dedicated 4chan just for bots. The former would be more amusing IMO.

Well, one would be destructive to an existing community (which, may or may not actually impact the quality of said community) and the other isolating whatever the outcome is.

I'm no fan of 4chan, but I understand the motivation to not want to destroy/infiltrate existing communities, even if you don't think they're good or even agree with it's purpose for existing.

Just by reading the title of the link I thought it's about setting up OpenClaw to do shitposting on 4chan.

the problem is that the bots aren't trained on 4chan so they aren't funny.

LET CLANKERS BE ANONYMOUS

I am utterly revolted by these continued gimmicks.

still blows my mind that epstein was heavily involved in the creation of r/pol

yeah, they seem to have had an absurd involvement with online culture. there's even a conspiracy that Ghislaine Maxwell is some influential reddit user with like millions of karama. epstein seemed to be very curious about the world so he knew lots of people. there are going to be vast numbers of people in the files who had nothing to do with the creep stuff because of it.

I mean it has the 4chan aesthetic but that's about it.

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