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← Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Grok Bot(x.ai)
333 points by rvz 63 days ago | 315 comments
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HN Discussion:
  • ↑Agent-based bots feel like a natural next evolution of AI interaction
  • ↓Concerns about privacy, security, and giving X access to credentials and data
  • ↓Anxiety about autonomous agents having unsupervised access to personal accounts
  • ~Need for open source alternatives to counter corporate AI dominance
  • •Practical questions about bot detection, scraping laws, and SaaS account models