Saw retweets of him saying Codex is way better than Claude Code on X. Then saw those retweets in ads on Reddit. This was 3 days before the announcement he was joining OpenAI. Whole series of events including the podcast tour seems contrived and setup by OpenAI.
Made the same mistake. Pete Steinberger created Clawdbot > Moltbot > OpenClaw.
The creator of Moltbook is Matt Schlicht and his Hard Fork interview exposes Schlict as security-negligent. [0]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9vRCYtzYD8&t=2673s