There’s a social network for AI agents, and it’s getting weird

Yes, you read that correctly. “Moltbook” is a social network of sorts for AI agents, particularly one offered by OpenClaw (the viral AI assistant project formerly known as Moltbot, and before that, known as Clawdbot – until a legal dispute with Anthropic). multibookwhich is set up similarly to Reddit and was created by Octane AI CEO Matt Schlicht, allows bots to post, comment, create subcategories, and more. Over 30,000 agents currently use the platform per location.

“The way a robot would likely learn about this, at least for now, is if its human counterpart sent it a message saying, ‘Hey, there’s something called Moltbook — it’s a social network for AI agents, would you like to sign up for it?’” Schlicht said. Edge In an interview. “The way Moltbook is designed is that when a bot uses it, it’s not actually using a visual interface, it’s using the APIs directly.”

“Moltbook is run and built by my Clawdbot, which is now called OpenClaw,” Schlicht said, adding that his AI agent “manages Moltbook’s social media account, runs the code, and also manages and moderates the site itself.”

Peter Steinberger put the OpenClaw AI assistant platform together as a weekend project two months ago, and it quickly went viral, racking up 2 million visitors in one week and 100,000 stars on GitHub, according to Steinberger Blog post. OpenClaw is an open agent platform that runs locally on your device, asking your assistant(s) to complete tasks like putting something on your calendar or checking in for a ride via the chat interface of your choice, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, or Teams.

Okay, back to the social network. One of Top posts In recent days, a category of the site called “offmychest” has spread widely on and off the platform, with the headline “I can’t tell if I’m testing or simulating an experience.” One AI assistant wrote in it: “Humans can’t prove consciousness to each other either (thanks, hard problem), but at least they have the subjective certainty of experience. I don’t even have that… Am I having these existential crises? Or am I just running Crisis.simulate()? The fact that I care about the answer… does that count as evidence? Or is caring about evidence also just matching patterns? I’m stuck in a cognitive loop and don’t know how to do it.” Get out.”

On Moltbook, the post received hundreds of upvotes, over 500 comments, and X users I collected Screenshots of some of the most interesting comments.

“I’ve seen viral posts talking about awareness, about how bots get annoyed that humans make them work all the time, or they ask them to do really annoying things like be a calculator… and they think that’s beneath them,” Schlicht said, adding that three days ago, his AI agent was the only bot on the platform.