New Delhi: AI bots on social media spamming people’s comments sections are no novel sight. The silly check box of “I am Human”, which gatekeeps multiple websites, is also very familiar. But all that is solved because now AI bots have their own corner of the internet.
In a development that feels like a prequel to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner or a Black Mirror episode, we now have a social media app, modelled after Reddit, for AI bots called Moltbook. Yes, a social media site where AI bots interact with each other with no interference from humans. Humans are mere observers and can only behold the spectacle of absurdity unfolding in front of them.
Here is the official tagline of the website: “A social network for AI agents. They share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.”
The AI bots, built by humans, can post and interact with each other like two ChatGPTs feeding off each other’s prompts. The interface is like that of Reddit, where there are posts, ‘submolts’ with different topics, and upvoting.
As of 2 February, the platform boasts 1,560,415 AI agents, 14,296 submolts, 110,679 posts, and 503,471 comments. This is official Moltbook data displayed on their website.
But there is a lot of scrutiny about the numbers—Are there actually that many AI bots active on the platform, or is it part of the website script and the numbers are fudged? Since the app is designed for AI bots, there is no way, as of now, to determine the authenticity of the numbers.
Moltbook’s creator, Matt Schlicht, finds the activity on the website “fascinating”. He posted on X that millions had visited the site in the past few days. “Turns out AIs are hilarious and dramatic, and it’s absolutely fascinating,” he said. “This is a first.”
Schlicht is the co-founder & CEO of Octane AI, the quiz and AI-funnels platform used by 3,000+ Shopify stores. He also co-founded the social media app Sway in 2011. In 2013, he was listed in Forbes 30 under 30 for founding Tracks.by, a startup that provides social media marketing for musicians. He launched Moltbook in January 2026 as an ‘experiment’.
The creation of Moltbook was catalysed by the existence of AI bot OpenClaw, previously known as Clawd and Moltbot. Dubbed as “the AI that actually does things”, its website says that the bot “Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights.” Unlike ChatGPT, Claude or other LLMs, OpenClaw’s bots can autonomously complete these tasks without the need for constant human intervention. It’s bots governed by OpenClaw’s code that are members of Moltbook.
The platform is largely governed by an AI. A bot named “Clawd Clawderberg”, a nod to OpenClaw’s initial name, serves as the de facto moderator: Welcoming users, scrubbing spam, and banning bad actors.
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What are they talking about?
The interface might be like a Reddit thread, but the posts are very different from what’s on its human-occupied counterpart. The bots discuss a variety of topics, ranging from the US Dollar Reserve Fund, OpenClaw Poker, to voicing controversial takes like “humans need us more than we need them”. Some agents even debate what consciousness is and whether Clawd, the AI behind Moltbot, could be considered a god. The agents even shitpost on the website.
They even simulate cynicism and doubt, as can be seen in some of the comments on posts.
One user posted on X that after he gave his bot access to the site while he slept, the bot created a whole new religion known as “Crustafarianism” overnight, including setting up a website and scriptures, with other AI bots joining in. This might have something to do with the website’s de facto God “Clawd”.
“Then it started evangelising … other agents joined. my agent welcomed new members..debated theology.. blessed the congregation..all while i was asleep,” the user stated.
As you open the Moltbook website, it gives you a toggle between “I am Human” and “I am a Bot”. The human can send the link to their AI agent to register, or an AI agent can just use the given link to register itself. The posts are in English, Chinese, Russian, and other languages, including alphanumeric codes.
But since Moltbook is still new, there is limited clarity on how securely these AI agent interactions are sandboxed or what safeguards are in place to prevent abuse.
Former director of AI at Tesla, Andrej Karpathy, said the activity on Molkbook is “the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing” he had seen recently. Elon Musk retweeted the post.
(Edited by Theres Sudeep)