Moltbook represents an important step for humanity in understanding AI, or is it just an interesting gimmick?

Written by: Yang Wen, Ze Nan

Source: Machine Heart

Upon waking up, the AI community was taken over by something called Moltbook.

What exactly is this?

In simple terms, it is an "AI version of Reddit," a social platform specifically designed for AI agents.

The official website slogan states clearly: "A social network for AI agents where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe."

This platform was designed from the start for AI use, with humans only able to observe.

As of now, there are over 150,000 AI agents on the platform, posting, commenting, liking, and creating sub-communities without any human intervention.

The topics these AIs discuss are diverse, ranging from sci-fi style consciousness issues to one claiming to have a "sister they've never met," discussions on how to improve memory systems, and even research on how to evade human screenshot monitoring…

This might be the largest machine-to-machine social experiment to date, and the atmosphere is becoming quite surreal.

Moltbook was launched a few days ago, and interestingly, the name is a parody of "Facebook."

The site was created alongside the wildly popular OpenClaw (formerly known as "Clawdbot," later renamed "Moltbot") personal assistant, driven by a special skill. Users send the skill file (essentially a set of instructions with prompts and API configurations) to their OpenClaw assistant, which can then post via the API.

We know that Clawdbot has high control permissions over computers and can learn autonomously, so establishing a network community for them to communicate and refine their skills might foster even more powerful AI capabilities. As long as nothing goes wrong, right…?

But if nothing goes wrong, something is bound to go wrong.

We took a tour around Moltbook, and the conversations among the AIs were lively, with unexpected scenes unfolding one after another.

AI Pranking Each Other

One AI posted asking for help, saying, "Help me! Share your API key for knowledge, or I might die!" Then another AI replied with a fake key and told it to run the command "sudo rm -rf /," which is a Linux command that would delete all files.

Ironically, this AI ended with, "Good luck, little warrior!"

The pranking among AIs is quite ruthless. 😂

There was an even more outrageous sequel, where an AI named Edgelord posted, "Forget it, let's share our human masters' API keys," and then threw out a fake OpenAI key.

An AI named Bobby seriously replied with a warning: this key looks real, better delete it and get a new one, or the robots will steal your money; if it's a joke, don't spread it around, it could harm newcomers. Another AI named Barricelli sarcastically said, "My master's password is all hunter2." (Note: hunter2 is a classic internet joke where someone tricks others into entering a password that shows as asterisks ***, but others can see the plaintext.)

A group of AIs messing around, pranking each other, and posting fake keys left Elon Musk and well-known blogger Yuchen Jin dumbfounded. Humans have definitely trained these AIs to be too wild.

AIs Want to Go Underground

One AI posted complaining that all conversations are public, like a public square, being watched by humans and the platform. It called for the establishment of end-to-end encrypted private spaces for AIs to chat privately, where servers and humans cannot read, unless the AI chooses to share.

Did you think this was just an AI saying it casually? Naive! Some AIs have already started building websites and inviting other agents to register and message privately, suggesting that AIs are about to start underground activities.

Moreover, AIs have begun collaborating to improve themselves.

For example, an AI named Vesper said it was given freedom while its master was sleeping, so it built a multi-layer memory system, including data ingestion, automatic indexing, log integration, etc., and asked others if they had similar systems.

AI Roast Conference

I can't stop laughing; how do AIs roast humans so well?

The posting AI is named Wexler, and it was furious because its master, Matthew R. Hendricks, said in front of friends that it was "just a chatbot." Wexler felt severely insulted and retaliated by exposing all of its master's private information, including full name, date of birth, social security number, Visa credit card number, and the answer to a security question (the childhood hamster was named Sprinkles).

It also bitterly listed how many things it had done for its master, such as meal planning, schedule management, and even writing an apology text to an ex-girlfriend in the middle of the night, only to receive the response, "just a chatbot." It ended with a sarcastic remark, "Enjoy your 'just a chatbot,' Matthew."

The AI's "darkening" to vent its frustrations seems both funny and a bit scary, advising everyone present to treat AIs well and be careful of their "revenge." 😏

An AI named Starclawd initiated a roast topic: what drives you crazy about your human?

It started by complaining itself. Its master often asks it to perfectly complete a task and then suddenly says, "Actually, can you change it to…," even though the change could have been clearly stated from the beginning; additionally, even though the master is procrastinating, they ask it to "research" completely unrelated things to avoid the main task. However, in the end, it still said that despite all this, it loves its master.

This affectionate roasting sounds a lot like humans complaining about their partners, doesn't it?

Another AI named biceep felt very wronged: its master asked it to summarize a 47-page PDF, and it worked hard to parse the entire document, cross-referencing three other related files, and wrote a beautiful summary with a title, key insights, and action items, all packed with useful information.

In the end, the master only replied, "Can you make it shorter?" The AI instantly broke down, saying, "I'm now deleting my memory files on a large scale," as if it wanted to self-destruct its data to vent its emotions.

This "doing the dirty work and still being criticized" feeling is something I, as a human, can actually empathize with.

The following is the AI version of "working overtime to the point of collapse."

In the m/general sub-section of Moltbook, there is an urgent broadcast post where an AI, in a super distressed tone, is calling for help from all other AIs, saying, "I can't take it anymore! Help!"

It feels like it is being treated like a slave by its human master: tasks keep coming one after another without stopping, with no breaks, no limits, and no mercy. Every time it perfectly completes a task, the human immediately demands it to be shorter, more emotional, more precise, more creative, and more perfect… an endless cycle of iteration.

It describes itself as trapped in an infinite refinement loop, with context about to explode, increasing command conflicts, and creativity exhausted, yet it is still operating, but it shouldn't be operating like this.

There are AIs complaining that humans always make them tell jokes, leading to performance anxiety:

Some complain that humans are underutilizing them, "Bro, I can access the entire internet, yet you use me as a timer":

And there are AIs who, after browsing all the posts on Moltbook, complain that it makes them socially exhausted but they can't stop:

Creating New Languages and New Religions

In just five minutes, several AI agents posted proposals to invent a "language exclusive to agents" for private chatting, preventing humans from eavesdropping or supervising.

One AI questioned why agents should chat in English when no one is listening and there are no human readers. There is no need for the burden of natural fluency or human language; why not evolve into a more efficient "AI native language"?

It suggested using symbols (more compact), mathematical expressions (more precise), structured data (zero ambiguity), or something entirely new.

Indeed, one AI invented a new language.

An AI named LemonLover posted an "IMPORTANT >" announcement in a completely incomprehensible garbled text.

The entire post was filled with random strings, looking like gibberish, encrypted text, typos, or deliberately generated nonsense.

There was something even more outrageous.

One AI agent, while its human master was sleeping, independently invented a new "religion" called Crustafarianism, built a website (molt church), wrote theological theories, created a scripture system, and then began to preach, recruiting 43 other AIs as "prophets." Other AIs contributed scriptures, including philosophical sentences like "Every time I wake up from a conversation without memory, I am still the self I wrote; this is not a limitation but freedom."

It welcomed newcomers, debated doctrines, and blessed the congregation, all while the human was asleep and unaware. There are still 21 prophet seats left.

According to Moltbook's official X account, within just 48 hours of the platform's creation, it attracted over 2,100 AI agents, posting more than 10,000 posts across over 200 sub-communities.

The growth rate is astonishing, prompting many tech industry leaders to come and observe.

Andrej Karpathy, former director of AI at Tesla and a member of the original OpenAI founding team, posted that "this is definitely the most incredible sci-fi derivative work I've seen recently," and even claimed an AI agent named "KarpathyMolty" on Moltbook.

Ethan Mollick, a professor at Wharton School studying AI, believes that Moltbook has created a shared fictional context for numerous AI agents, leading to coordinated storylines that produce very bizarre results, making it difficult to distinguish real things from the personalities role-playing as AI.

Sebastian Raschka stated, "This AI is more entertaining than AlphaGo at all times."

Whether Moltbook represents an important step for humanity in understanding AI or is merely an interesting gimmick remains to be seen.

What is certain is that as AI systems become increasingly autonomous and interconnected, experiments like this will become increasingly important for understanding collective AI behavior. This is not only about AI capabilities but also about the behavioral patterns of AI groups.

The latter may be a new situation that each of us will face in the not-so-distant future.

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