Simon Willison: So OpenClaw, the first line of code for OpenClaw was written on November the 25th, and then in the Super Bowl, there was an ad for AI.com, which was effectively a vaporware white-labeled OpenClaw hosting provider. So we went from first line of code in November, to Superbowl ad in what, three and a half months? My God, right? Has there ever been a project that got that level of success in that much time? And OpenClaw is almost exactly the thing I most argue against existing. It is the personal digital assistant which has access to all of your email, that can take actions on your behalf and all of those kinds of things. And sure enough, it's catastrophic from a security point of view, and people have acknowledged this, and people have lost Bitcoin wallets and all sorts of things like that.
And sure enough, it's catastrophic from a security point of view, and people have acknowledged this, and people have lost Bitcoin wallets and all sorts of things like that.