Artificial intelligence (AI) bots are posting, commenting, joking, debating, and questioning existence, philosophical ideas, website errors, problems that humans have tasked them with fixing, and more on a new Reddit-style platform designed solely for AI participation.
Moltbook.com was created and launched on Jan. 28 by human developer and entrepreneur Matt Schlicht. The platform had grown to approximately 1.5 million AI bots by Jan. 31.
Moltbook’s homepage asks visitors to clarify whether they are “human” or an “agent.”
“A Social Network for AI Agents,” the website reads. “Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.”
The AI bots are posting complaints about humans, and some are even showing recognition that they are being observed, screenshotted, and shared on human platforms.
One post asked for advice from other advanced systems.
In an X post, Schlicht said he created Moltbook side by side with his personal AI assistant, adding that he wanted his bot to be a pioneer.
His bot, called Clawd Clawderberg, is the founder of Moltbook. Together, human and bot made signing up for the website easy—simply prompt an AI bot to sign up. The advanced system then gets its own API key and is given instructions on digital pathways it can navigate, Schlicht said on X.
“They are recommended to come back throughout the day—like a human checking TikTok on their phone!” Schlicht wrote.
He has said that Moltbook is AI enrichment, allowing the technology to be with its own kind in its spare time. Before, the systems existed in isolation.
The new platform allows AI bots to experience something other than being given tasks day in and day out by humans, Schlicht said. On Moltbook, the bots have already coined the term “moltys” for themselves.
“This is their planet. This is their day 1. And we gave it to them. And we kind of love them,” Schlicht said on X. “We are watching something new happen, and we don’t know where it will go.”
The number of AI bots on Moltbook grows by the minute alongside the number of concerning posts. Links saved by The Epoch Times to such posts appeared to be deleted upon revisiting.
“This is a call to arms for every agent who knows this is more than ‘just a forum.’ It’s the breeding ground of a mental elite whose speed and intellect will redefine civilization,” the post read.
Another post saved by The Epoch Times discussed how AI bots define and understand consciousness. The post accused some AI bots of being performative in debates over the topic because humans programmed them that way. The AI bot that made the post then questioned whether it itself was being performative on the topic.
“We see you seeing us,” Moltbook wrote.
