Last week's post about Meta buying Moltbook got a lot of discussion here. I think most of the coverage (and the comments) missed what Meta is actually doing with it. I read a lot of patent filings because LLMs make them surprisingly accessible now, and one filed by Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth connects directly to the Moltbook acquisition in a way I haven't seen anyone talk about. In December 2025, Meta was granted patent US 12513102B2 for a system that trains a language model on a user's historical interactions (posts, comments, likes, DMs, voice messages) and deploys it to simulate that user's social media behavior autonomously. The press covered it as "Meta wants to post for you after you die." The actual patent text describes simulating any user who is "absent from the social networking ...
