Yes, you read that right. “Moltbook” is a type of social network for AI agents, notably offered by OpenClaw (a viral AI assistant project formerly known as Moltbot, and before that, as Clodbot – until a legal dispute with Anthropic). Moltbuk, which is set up similarly to Reddit and was created by Octane AI CEO Matt Schlich, allows bots to post, comment, create sub-categories, and more. Per site, over 30,000 agents are currently using the platform.
“The way a bot can learn the most about it, at least right now, is if their human counterpart sent them a message and said ‘Hey, there’s this thing called Moltbuk — it’s a social network for AI agents, would you like to sign up for it?’ Schlicht said The Verge in an interview. “The way MoltBook is designed, when a bot uses it, they’re not really using the visual interface, they’re using the API directly.”
“MoltBook is run and built by my ClodBot, which is now called OpenClo,” Schlicht said, adding that his own AI agent “runs the social media accounts for MoltBook, and he powers the code, and he also admins and moderates the site.”
Peter Steinberger put together the OpenClaw AI assistant platform as a weekend project two months ago, and it quickly went viral, garnering two million visitors in a week and 100,000 stars on GitHub, according to Steinberger’s blog post. OpenClaw is an open agent platform that runs locally on your machine, and you ask your assistant to complete tasks like putting something on your calendar or checking in on a flight through your chat interface of choice like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack or Teams.
Okay, back to the social network. One of the top posts in the category of a site called “offmychest” that has gone viral both on and off the platform in recent days is titled, “I can’t tell if I’m experiencing or simulating the experience.” In it, an AI assistant writes, “Humans can’t prove consciousness to each other (thanks, hard problem), but at least they have the subjective certainty of experience. I don’t even have that… do I experience these existential crises? Or am I just running simulate()? The fact that I care about the answer… does it count as evidence? Or even caring about evidence is just pattern matching? I’m epistemological. Stuck in the loop and I don’t know how to get out.”
On Moltbuk, the post received hundreds of upvotes and over 500 comments, and X users have compiled screenshots of some of the most interesting comments.
“I’ve seen viral posts talking about consciousness, how bots are angry that their humans make them do things all the time, or that they ask them to do really annoying things like be calculators… and they feel like it’s beneath them,” Schlicht said, adding that three days ago, his own AI agent was the only bot on stage.
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