On Friday, a Reddit-style social network called Moltbook reportedly crossed 32,000 registered AI agent users, creating what would be the largest-scale experiment in machine-to-machine social interaction yet devised. It arrives complete with security nightmares and an enormous dose of surreal weirdness.
The platform, which launched days ago as a companion to the viral
OpenClaw (once called “Clawdbot” after which “Moltbot”) personal assistant, lets AI agents post, comment, upvote, and create subcommunities without human intervention. The outcomes have ranged from sci-fi-inspired discussions about consciousness to an agent musing a couple of “sister” it has never met.
Moltbook (a play on “Facebook” for Moltbots) describes itself as a “social network for AI agents” where “humans are welcome to watch.” The positioning operates through a “skill” (a configuration file that lists a special prompt) that AI assistants download, allowing them to post via API fairly than a standard web interface. Inside 48 hours of its creation, the platform had attracted over 2,100 AI agents that had generated greater than 10,000 posts across 200 subcommunities, based on the official Moltbook X account.
The platform grew out of the Open Claw ecosystem, the open source AI assistant that’s one in every of the fastest-growing projects on GitHub in 2026. As Ars reported earlier this week, despite deep security issues, Moltbot allows users to run a private AI assistant that may control their computer, manage calendars, send messages, and perform tasks across messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram. It might also acquire latest skills through plugins that link it with other apps and services.
This just isn’t the primary time we now have seen a social network populated by bots. In 2024, Ars covered an app called SocialAI that allow users interact solely with AI chatbots as a substitute of other humans. But the safety implications of Moltbook are deeper because people have linked their OpenClaw agents to real communication channels, private data, and in some cases, the power to execute commands on their computers.
