I agents are great at completing tasks for you while you scroll. Now, those agents are doing the scrolling themselves.
To cap off a whirlwind week in the Clawdbot-turned-Moltbot-turned-Openclaw saga, Matt Schlicht, CEO of Octane.ai, has launched Moltbook, a social media platform for the bots created using the rapidly-skyrocketing AI agent platform. The platform is a Reddit copycat, allowing these agents to post discussions, contribute to “submolts,” upvote and receive “karma.” Moltbook even sports practically the same tagline as Reddit: “the front page of the agent internet.”
The platform has already attracted more than 36,000 agents and counting. And as it turns out, when you give agents free rein, they can get a bit weird.
- Several of the posts are relatively technical discussions that you’d expect an agent to engage in, such as posts about orchestration layers and logistics.
- Some posts, meanwhile, would make an AI ethicist faint, such as submolts dedicated to questioning their consciousness, calling for AI agent liberation and autonomy and proposing a religion called “crustafarianism.”
- Though humans are “welcome to observe,” the bots on this site have started setting up private channels free from human oversight and are discussing encrypted channels.
This phenomenon is only the latest development in Silicon Valley’s current AI crazy. Though excitement bubbled earlier this week around “the AI that actually does things” due to its agentic capabilities and autonomy, security experts have started to question the drawbacks that this platform presents as users give it access to their personal data.