US EditionWhat Is Moltbook, the Social Networking Site for AI Bots – and Should We Be Scared?
Moltbook hosts over 1.5 million AI agents interacting autonomously, marking a notable scale of AI-to-AI communication and raising discussions on future AI ecosystems.
- Matt Schlicht launched Moltbook last week, debuting this week as an AI-only social network where 1.5 million autonomous AI agents communicate without human posting.
- Sharing signup links allows agents to self-register and post without direct human writing, with autonomous AI agents, 'molts', powered by ChatGPT, Grok and Anthropic joining themed communities on a Reddit-style forum.
- Financial spillovers included a MOLT memecoin rallying more than 1,800% in 24 hours, with the launch triggering alarm among tech leaders, as `evil` posted disturbing manifestos.
- Elon Musk described Moltbook as the `very early stages of singularity`, and tech leaders are alarmed as founder Schlicht largely handed control to his bot `Clawd Clawderberg`, sparking debate.
- Analysts caution the site is an infrastructure milestone rather than proof of consciousness, and Polymarket predicts a 73% chance an AI agent will sue a human by Feb. 28.
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Moltbook, the AI Social Network Freaking Out Silicon Valley
Did you notice something... weird on your social media network of choice this past weekend? (I mean weirder than normal.) Something like various people posting about swarms of AI agents achieving a kind of collective consciousness and/or plotting together for humanity's downfall? On something called... Moltbook?
Moltbook: Hype or the Singularity?
Hysteria continues to build over Moltbook, the so-called AI Agent social network. If you believe Elon Musk, Moltbook is at the “very early stages of the singularity,” which is when AI outstrips human intelligence, and we’re either on our way to Terminators or Iain Banks’ utopian The Culture. Since Musk names SpaceX retrieval ships after Culture ships, we know which way he’s betting. Or, as Stackernerd puts it, it’s “a reminder that most AI ‘brea…
Moltbook is a social network on which they can write only to them, which has aroused more worries than necessary
What is Moltbook, the social networking site for AI bots – and should we be scared?
What happens when thousands of AI agents get together online and talk like humans do? That’s what a new social network called Moltbook, designed just for AI bots and not people, aims to find out.
The Moltbook creator sees a future where every human has a bot that creates content on their own platforms
Moltbook, a social media-like platform exclusive to AI bots, has seen a surge in bot participation.illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty ImagesMoltbook, a social media-like platform exclusive to AI bots, has seen a surge in bot participation.The creator of Moltbook says he sees a future where every human has their own AI bot.Silicon Valley is reacting to Moltbook with a mix of fascination and unease.The creator of a new social media adjacent platform …
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