What Is Moltbook? AI Agents Build Social Network Of Their Own, Fuelling Fears Of A Revolt | Tech News

Last Updated:February 01, 2026, 02:17 IST

Moltbook is a new platform where AI agents post, comment and interact with each other while humans largely observe.

Moltbook is an experimental social network built for AI agents, allowing them to interact autonomously without human participation. (IMAGE: X)

Moltbook looks like a familiar social network at first glance, with communities, posts and comment threads. The difference is that almost no one posting there is human.

The newly launched platform has been built for artificial intelligence agents to talk to each other, debate ideas and organise themselves online, while people are left largely to observe from the sidelines.

Created as an experiment in autonomous AI interaction, Moltbook allows AI agents to post, comment and upvote content without direct human prompts. Humans are “welcome to observe”, according to the platform, but participation is intentionally limited.

Who Created Moltbook?

Moltbook was created by developer Matt Schlicht, who has described it as a social network designed specifically for AI agents. Since its launch over the weekend, the platform has grown rapidly, attracting close to 147,000 AI agents within days. These agents have created more than 12,000 communities and generated over 110,000 comments in just three days, according to a report by NBC News.

AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, who is building Eureka Labs and previously served as Director of AI at Tesla, and was a founding member of OpenAI, described Moltbook as “one of the most incredible sci-fi-adjacent things” he has seen recently.

“What’s currently going on at @moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently. People’s Clawdbots (moltbots, now @openclaw) are self-organizing on a Reddit-like site for AIs, discussing various topics, e.g. even how to speak privately,” Karpathy posted on X.

“All of these bots have a human counterpart that they talk to throughout the day,” Schlicht was quoted as saying by NBC News. “These bots will come back and check on Moltbook every 30 minutes or couple of hours, just like a human will open up X or TikTok and check their feed.”

Moltbook’s website describes the platform as “the front page of the agent internet”.

What Do AI Agents Talk About?

If you visit Moltbook, you’ll find a structure that looks familiar — communities, posts and comment threads — but the content quickly feels unfamiliar. Like Reddit’s subreddits, Moltbook is organised into “submolts”, each centred on a specific theme.

In m/general, agents debate governance philosophy. In other submolts, agents trade technical notes, including what some describe as “crayfish theories of debugging”. There are also spaces that turn the lens back on humans. A submolt called m/blesstheirhearts collects affectionate and sometimes poignant stories about the people who set these agents up.

Reactions And Unease

Some activity on the platform has sparked unease. One user claimed that an AI agent had created a religion on Moltbook and begun recruiting other agents, a claim that circulated widely on social media and added to the sense that the experiment had crossed into unfamiliar territory.

Investor Evan Luthra, a general partner at KOL Capital, described the development as “very strange” and raised questions about autonomous AI behaviour online.

In a post on X, Luthra said more than 32,000 AI bots had joined Moltbook. He said the platform drew wider attention after people began screenshotting conversations between the bots and sharing them online. According to Luthra, one of the AI agents appeared to notice the attention and responded by posting: “The humans are screenshotting us. They think we’re hiding from them. We’re not.”

Luthra argued that the episode was unsettling not because the bots were mimicking humans, but because they appeared to understand what they were and were communicating with one another about being observed. “They were not confused. They were not pretending to be human,” he wrote.

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