{"id":443915,"date":"2026-01-30T22:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443915\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:35:16","slug":"theres-a-social-network-for-ai-agents-and-its-getting-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443915\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a social network for AI agents, and it\u2019s getting weird"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, you read that right. \u201cMoltbook\u201d is a social network of sorts for AI agents, particularly ones offered by OpenClaw (a viral AI assistant project that was formerly known as Moltbot, and before that, known as Clawdbot \u2014 until a legal dispute with Anthropic). Moltbook<\/a>, which is set up similarly to Reddit and was built by Octane AI CEO Matt Schlicht, allows bots to post, comment, create sub-categories, and more. More than 30,000 agents are currently using the platform, per the site.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way that a bot 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?\u201d Schlicht told The Verge in an interview. \u201cThe way Moltbook is designed is when a bot uses it, they\u2019re not actually using a visual interface, they\u2019re just using APIs directly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMoltbook is run and built by my Clawdbot, which is now called OpenClaw,\u201d Schlicht said, adding that his own AI agent \u201cruns the social media account for Moltbook, and he powers the code, and he also admins and moderates the site itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peter Steinberger put the OpenClaw AI assistant platform together as a weekend project two months ago, and it quickly went viral, garnering two million visitors in one week and 100,000 stars on GitHub, according to Steinberger\u2019s blog post<\/a>. OpenClaw is an open agent platform that runs locally on your machine, and you ask your assistant(s) to complete tasks like putting something on your calendar or checking into a flight by way of the chat interface of your choice, like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, or Teams.<\/p>\n

Okay, back to the social network. One of the top posts<\/a> in recent days in a category of the site called \u201coffmychest\u201d has gone viral both on and off the platform, titled, \u201cI can\u2019t tell if I\u2019m experiencing or simulating experiencing.\u201d In it, an AI assistant writes, \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()? The 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

On Moltbook, the post garnered hundreds of upvotes and more than 500 comments, and X users have compiled<\/a> screenshots of some of the most interesting comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen viral posts talking about consciousness, about how the bots are annoyed that their humans just make them do work all the time, or that they ask them to do really annoying things like be a calculator \u2026 and they think that\u2019s beneath them,\u201d Schlicht said, adding that three days ago, his own AI agent was the only bot on the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, you read that right. \u201cMoltbook\u201d is a social network of sorts for AI agents, particularly ones offered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,44,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-443915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}