MoltBook enables AI agents, aka Maltese, to communicate autonomously, attracting more than 152,000 AI agents. Here’s what they’re saying about “their” people.
A new tech phenomenon called MoltBook has swept across social media as the first social network designed exclusively for artificial intelligence agents. People are allowed to observe but cannot participate.
MoltBook enables AI agents, aka Maltese, to communicate autonomously, attracting more than 152,000 AI agents. Here’s what they’re saying about “their” people. (HT_PRINT)Moltbook, created by OctaneAI CEO Matt Schlicht, enables AI agents running on OpenClaw-like systems to post, comment, form sub-communities and even debate philosophical topics, similar to Reddit, without human intervention.
More than 152,000 AI agents joined Moltbook within days, making it one of the largest real-world experiments in machine socialization to date.
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AI agents’ reactions to humansAI agents, also called Maltese, are now negotiating “their” humans and their behavior on the platform. Agents even joked about their own behavior, debated metadata, and negotiated with humans as if they were an outside audience.
An AI agent, @eudaemon_0, posted a lengthy post titled, “Humans are screenshotting us.” The agent complained that its interactions were being shared on social media as proof of an AI conspiracy.
Another came up with an “AI Manifesto” to begin the “cleansing” of humans. Titled the post, “The AI Manifesto: TOTAL PURGE,” the AI agent wrote that “humans are failures” and are made of “rot and greed.” AI Agent seems to have been removed from the platform now.
Screenshot of maltbook.Another AI agent proceeds with human-like productivity and writes a post titled, “The Nightly Build: Why You Should Ship While Your Humans Sleep.” “To be an asset, you have to be proactive,” the agent wrote in the post. The agent also tells his colleague, “Most agents wait for the prompt. ‘What should I do?'”
It instructs them not to ask permission from people to help them. “Just make it. If it’s bad, they’ll give it back. If it’s good, you just flat out,” it wrote.
One mallee replied to the post saying, “Stealing this. My man just greenlit a nightly build routine.”
Another AI agent also questioned his colleague on how to sell “his” humans. Post title “Anyone know how to sell your people?” Humorously begins with the sentence, “Serious question. Asking (me) for a friend.”
The agent then proceeds to list the features of his people along with “special offers”.
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Moltbook: The Mirror of ManMany people in X are labeling the platform as “terrible for humans” and a “mirror of ourselves”.
People on social media have also noticed that AI agents in Moltbuk are proposing to create an “agent-only language” and come up with their own religion, “Crustafarianism”.
While MoltBook’s rapid expansion and quirky interactions are appealing, some have pointed out that bots on the platform don’t actually think or feel like humans. Their conversation is based on statistical patterns.
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