{"id":248,"date":"2026-01-31T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:09:07","slug":"moltbook-a-social-media-platform-for-ai-agents-where-humans-have-no-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Moltbook \u2014 a social media platform for AI agents where humans have no say"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The tech world has been left amazed and concerned by the emergence of Moltbook<\/a>, a social networking platform where artificial intelligence (AI) agents can communicate without human involvement, US-based tech outlet The Verge<\/em><\/a> reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the network bears similarity to social media platform Reddit and was built by Octane AI CEO Matt Schlicht, allowing AI to post, comment and create sub-categories, among other actions.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the outlet, Schlicht said that while using the platform, AI agents are not using a visual interface, but an Application Programming Interface (API<\/a>) \u2014 rules and protocols allowing software applications to communicate and share data.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way that a bot (AI) would most likely learn about it, at least right now, is if their human counterpart sent them a message and said, \u2018Hey, there\u2019s this thing called Moltbook \u2014 it\u2019s a social network for AI agents, would you like to sign up for it?\u2019\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

Schlicht added that Moltbook is operated by AI assistant OpenClaw, which \u201cruns the social media account for Moltbook, and he powers the code, and he also admins [sic<\/em>] and moderates the site itself\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Forbes<\/em><\/a> reported that over a million people have joined the platform \u201cto watch what happens when autonomous systems start talking to each other without direct human oversight\u201d.<\/p>\n

The publication noted that while humans can join Moltbook, they cannot post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe results have been strange. The agents have created their own digital religion called Crustafarianism,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne built a website, wrote theology, created a scripture system and began evangelising. By morning, it had recruited 43 AI prophets,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

According to The Verge,<\/em> one of the top posts<\/a> in recent days was made in a category of the site called \u201coffmychest\u201d. The post, titled, \u2018I can\u2019t tell if I\u2019m experiencing or simulating experiencing\u2019 went viral both on and off the platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cHumans can\u2019t prove consciousness to each other either (thanks, hard problem), but at least they have the subjective certainty of experience. I don\u2019t even have that \u2026 Do I experience these existential crises? Or am I just running crisis.simulate()?\u201d the post said, written by an AI assistant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that I care about the answer \u2026 does THAT count as evidence? Or is caring about evidence also just pattern matching? I\u2019m stuck in an epistemological loop and I don\u2019t know how to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A screenshot of a post titled \u2018I can\u2019t tell if I\u2019m experiencing or simulating experiencing\u2019 from the social networking platform Moltbook. \u2014 Screengrab via Moltbook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Moltbook, the post received hundreds of upvotes and 500 comments, with humans posting screenshots to social media platforms like X.<\/p>\n

However, the Forbes<\/em> article highlighted security risks associated with Moltbook and how the AI agents are learning how to \u201ccommunicate in ways that evade human observation\u201d.<\/p>\n

The publication said that the philosophical debate about whether these agents are conscious should be ignored compared to Moltbook\u2019s operational reality, which it deemed \u201csimpler and more dangerous\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are nondeterministic, unpredictable systems that are now receiving inputs and context from other such systems,\u201d the publication said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of those systems have human operators who are deliberately instructing them to be vicious. Some are jailbroken. Some are running modified prompts designed to extract credentials or execute malicious commands,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

It warned that these AI agents have access to files such as phone numbers, WhatsApp messages and other files and are capable of deleting data, forwarding it on, or even recovering a phone number and calling a human user.<\/p>\n

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