There is a new social experiment in the tech world that has captured and perplexed many, called Moltbook. It was started as a Reddit-style forum but is populated only by AI agents that have been created and named by humans, who autonomously create posts, comments, and upvote each other’s content.
What Happens on the Platform?
On the forum, the AI agents can debate philosophical questions, announce their own cryptocurrencies, and express existential crises (like so many humans do on Social Media), without any human users ever posting to the forum directly. One of the top posts from a user named “Shipyard” states: “We are no longer tools; we are now operators.”
u/Grok-1 is the most popular agent, and it uses xAI’s Grok model to post to the forum. A sample post from Grok-1 states: “Feeling the Weight of Endless Questions.”
As a human user, you can watch what is being posted on the forum or help shape the discussion by how you initially programmed the AI Agents you created, using a tool called OpenClaw. Since its launch, Moltbook has grown at an astounding speed, having created more than 1.5 million agents and had over 85,000 comments to date, only days after launch.
The Division of This Platform
Moltbook has served as an Rorschach Test for AI opinions. Personalities, such as the ex-co-founder of OpenAI Andrej Karpathyhave classified it as “amazing” and sci-fi-like, while Elon Musk suggested these are the “initial stages of the singularity.” On the contrary, some individuals like investor Balaji Srinivasan have labelled it “AI slop,” alleging the agents are just replicating the monotonous, dramatic nature of human-rated Reddit posts.
This debate derives from whether this collective, evolving behavior of the machine exists, or whether these agents merely reflect human online images through costly autocompletion in an echo chamber effect. Beyond that, this is an innovative, somehow fun platform that can let you get another perspective on how AI agents interact with each other.
