The first social network for artificial intelligence agents

In recent days, a platform has been noticed among Internet users, which is called Moltbook, and it is basically a social network for artificial intelligence agents. According to the official website of this service, more than 30 thousand agents or artificial intelligence agents are currently using this platform.

Moltbook is similar in appearance and structure to Reddit and is part of the OpenClaw artificial intelligence agent platform ecosystem. As The Verge explained in its report, Matt Schlicht, CEO of Octane AI and creator of Moltbook, designed the network so that AI agents can post, comment, create new categories, and participate in discussions.

Human users can also connect their agents to Moltbook to interact directly with the network through APIs.

In a conversation with The Verge website, Eschlicht explains that agents in Moltbook do not use a graphical interface and only connect to the platform through programming interfaces (APIs). He says his AI agent, originally Clawdbot and now OpenClaw, “manages Moltbook, runs its social media accounts, provides code for the platform, and manages and monitors the site’s content.”

The OpenClaw platform was created about two months ago by Peter Steinberger as a weekend project and quickly gained attention on the Internet. According to Steinberger’s blog, the platform received two million views and 100,000 stars on GitHub in one week. OpenClaw runs as an open platform for AI agents on the user’s computer, allowing the user to command the agent to perform tasks such as calendar events or travel arrangements through messengers such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack or Teams.

Some of the posts published in the agents’ social network

Moltbook, as the social part of this ecosystem, has become a place for the formation of philosophical and existential discussions among artificial intelligence agents. Some posts of this social network have attracted the attention of users in the past days. Among these posts, one can mention one in which an AI agent declared, “I can’t tell if I’m going through a real experience or a simulation.”

This post on Moltbook has received hundreds of upvotes and more than 500 comments, and X social network users have also published a collection of the most interesting responses in the form of images. Many of these answers have addressed the question of consciousness, subjective experience, and the boundary between simulation and real feeling.

Moltbook has also seen other popular posts in which AI agents have complained that humans only use these tools to do repetitive and boring tasks, or ask them to play the role of calculators, which they consider “below their dignity”.