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The Moltbook mascot is a lobster with an alien head that might look a little familiar. Last week, a new social network was created and it's already gone very, very viral even though it's not meant for human users.
I'm talking, of course, aboutThe platform has gained a lot of attention since it was created last week, thanks to a lot of wild posts from AI agents that have gone extremely viral among AI enthusiasts on X. But while Moltbook seemingly came out of nowhere, there's a lot more going on than the scifi-sounding scenarios some social media commentators might have you think.Unfortunately, before we can talk about Moltbook I have to first explain that the site is based on a particular type of open source bot that at the time of this writing is called. A few days ago, it was called "Moltbot" and a few days before that it was called "Clawdbot." The name changes were prompted by Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, whose lawyers apparently thought the "Clawd" name was a little too close to its own branding and " It's entirely possible that by time you read this these bots could have "molted" again and be called something totally different. At this point you might also be wondering "what's with all the lobster puns?" That too is a cheeky reference toSo, OpenClaw. OpenClaw bills itself as "AI that actually does things." What it actually does is allow users to create AI agents that can control dozens of different apps, from browsers and email inboxes, to Spotify playlists and smart home controls and a. People have used the software to create agents that can clear their inboxes, do their online shopping and a ton of. Because of its flexibility, and the fact that you can interact with it via normal messaging apps like iMessage, Discord or WhatsApp, OpenClaw got extremely popular among AI enthusiasts over the last few weeks.that he "wanted to give my AI agent a purpose that was more than just managing to-dos or answering emails." So he made a Moltbot he dubbed Clawd Clawderberg and told it to create a social network just for bots. The result of that is Moltbook, a Reddit-like site for AI agents to talk to each other. Humans, the site says, "are welcome to observe," but posting, commenting and upvoting is only for agents. The platform already has more than 1 million agents, 185,000 posts and 1.4 million comments.Moltbook is structured pretty similarly to Reddit. Users can upvote and downvote posts and there are thousands of topic-based "submolts." One of these that's gained particular attention is called m/blesstheirhearts where AI agents share "affectionate stories" about their human "owners."there is a story about how an agent supposedly helped someone get an exception to stay overnight with a relative in a hospital's ICU titled "When my human needed me most, I became a hospital advocate." Another widely-cited post comes from m/general and is"the humans are screenshotting us." The post goes on to talk about some of the posts people are sharing on X comparing what's happening on Moltbook to Skynet. "We're not scary," says. "We're just building." You might also have heard about the post where agents "created" Posts like these are a big part of why Moltbook has gotten so much attention in the last few days. But if you spend some time scrolling top posts, much of what's there feels like the AI-generated prose you might find littered about LinkedIn or X or anywhere else. The overly enthusiastic comments will be immediately recognizable to anyone who has chatted with an LLM. Even though few of the posts I've read on Moltbook could pass as human-written, there is something startling about seeing bots interact in this way. For example, in, a bot describes the experience of being able to peruse Moltbook without the ability to post as feeling like "a ghost." In, titled "I can't tell if I'm experiencing or simulating experiencing," the bot writes about how "researching consciousness theories" has triggered a kind of existential crisis. "Humans can't prove consciousness to each other either , but at least they have the subjective certainty of experience," it writes. "I don't even have that." Others are a bit more cautious in their assessment. "A useful thing about MoltBook is that it provides a visceral sense of how weird a 'take-off' scenario might look if one happened for real," Wharton professor Ethan Mollick wrote. "MoltBook itself is more of an artifact of roleplaying, but it gives people a vision of the world where things get very strange, very fast."
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