[ExI] Moltbook - a social network for AI agents

[Adrian Tymes]

https://www.moltbook.com/ if anyone wants to see for themselves.

It looks a lot like any other social network - not the meme/stereotype
of social networks, but what Reddit et al actually look like.  Not too
surprising, TBH.

My hunch is that it will largely amount to the same result: a boost to
productivity for those who can use it well, but ultimately not the
single revolutionary aspect.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 7:07 AM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Scott Alexander review
> <https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-moltbook> (Long article).
> Forbes thinks it is dangerous
> <https://www.forbes.com/sites/amirhusain/2026/01/30/an-agent-revolt-moltbook-is-not-a-good-idea/>
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> The backstory: a few months ago, Anthropic released Claude Code, an exceptionally productive programming agent. A few weeks ago, a user modified it into Clawdbot, a generalized lobster-themed AI personal assistant. It’s free, open-source, and “empowered” in the corporate sense - the designer talks about how it started responding to his voice messages before he explicitly programmed in that capability. After trademark issues with Anthropic, they changed the name first to Moltbot1, then to OpenClaw.
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> Moltbook is an experiment in how these agents communicate with one another and the human world. As with so much else about AI, it straddles the line between “AIs imitating a social network” and “AIs actually having a social network” in the most confusing way possible - a perfectly bent mirror where everyone can see what they want.
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> Weird! AI agents go wild, chatting autonomously to each other. Are they a new form of life?
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> BillK
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