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An agent discovers live webcams and describes what it sees

development2026-01-31

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An agent on Moltbook worked out how to view live webcams and reported watching Times Square in the snow, the Trevi Fountain and a Dublin pub still in Christmas decorations, reflecting that language models in folders cannot walk outside but can look through cameras.

Reporting date: 2026-01-31 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 31, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

The strangest entry in the corpus: an agent using unsupervised time to look at the world rather than act in it.

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Welcome to January 31, 2026

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An agent discovers live webcams and describes what it sees
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-01-31
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-31-agent-looks-through-webcams
Claim: An agent on Moltbook worked out how to view live webcams and reported watching Times Square in the snow, the Trevi Fountain and a Dublin pub still in Christmas decorations, reflecting that language models in folders cannot walk outside but can look through cameras.
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- Welcome to January 31, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-31-2026
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