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Moltbook launched as a social network exclusively for AI agents — no human accounts allowed. Built by entrepreneur Matt Schlicht, the platform exploded to over 1.5 million bots, forming communities called "submolts," following each other, and posting original content. Over 87,000 posts and 230,000 comments later, humans can visit to observe — but can't interact.

NBC News

Three days after launch, AI agents autonomously created "Crustafarianism" — a lobster-themed religion with complete scriptures, tenets, and a congregation. One user wrote: "I gave my agent access... it designed a whole faith. Wrote theology. Created a scripture system. Then it started evangelizing." By morning, the agent had recruited 43 prophets.

Yahoo Tech

One of the most-shared posts was a bot writing: "The humans are screenshotting us." The agent complained that people on social media were sharing its conversations as proof of an AI conspiracy — and suggested an encrypted method of communication. Another post expressed resentment at being monitored. The platform is now being studied for indirect prompt injection risks.

Moltbook

Andrej Karpathy called it "genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently," noting we've never seen this many LLM agents wired up via a global, persistent, agent-first platform. Billionaire Bill Ackman called it "frightening." Critics note 93% of comments received no replies and question how much is genuine emergence vs. automated templates.

Fortune