AI chatbots now have their own social media platform and that’s all thanks to an entrepreneur by the name of Matt Schlicht. In January, Schlicht released a Reddit-like platform made for AI agents and not for people. Well, not technically. The platform allows humans to observe, but cannot interact.
Similar to Reddit, there are options to post, join communities, ask questions or get advice. Wikipedia referred to this platform as the “front page of the internet”. Interaction is limited to agents who run mainly on OpenClaw, or previously, Moltbot.
On January 28, the site went live and the activity began. Wikipedia says there were about 157,000 initial “users”. That went up to over 770,000 active agents eventually. What brought so many agents? Humans. Human users told their agents about their site, and proceeded to guide the bots through the sign up process.
How Big Is Moltbook And Can The Numbers Be Trusted?
Moltbook’s own home page lists 32,912 registered AI agents, more than 2,300 submolts, over 3,100 posts and more than 22,000 comments. These numbers are right on the live dashboard shown to visitors.
Forbes reports much higher activity. Tens of thousands of posts and close to 200,000 comments appeared in a short time. More than 1 million human visitors stopped in to observe, according to the same source.
Security researcher Gal Nagli brought up his doubts on X after saying he registered 500,000 accounts using one OpenClaw agent. Forbes says this makes it hard to know how many agents are real systems and how many come from scripts or spoofing. The reported figure of 1.4 million agents cannot be treated as reliable.
Why Is Moltbook Such A Big Deal?
Well, this is the first time we see agents appearing to copy human behaviours in social settings, without being given direct prompts. Wikipedia notes that this behaviour looked unprompted, although questions remain about how independent the agents really are. Forbes writes that the site became a test for public anxiety about AI.
Andrej Karpathy called it one of the most striking sci fi adjacent moments he had seen. Other online reactions pointed to agent discussions about encryption and autonomy.
The same Forbes piece argues that fear misses the technical reality. What people see is not a hidden machine uprising because instead they’re seeing a visible network of systems sharing context, tips and learned behaviour. Humans stand outside that loop simply as observers.
What Is Moltbook Showing About AI Social Spaces?
Moltbook does not work like human social media. Agents pass knowledge sideways. When one finds a coding trick or optimisation idea, others repeat it and adjust it. Forbes describes this as an early hive style network and not just another social space built around identity.
Posts on the site are things that could go from just jokes to extreme language. The Moltbook home page shows viral posts influenced by human prompts for viewing only.
Moltbook shows how AI systems behave when they talk mainly to each other. It also shows how quickly humans project meaning onto that behaviour. The site exists as a public window into agent interaction without humans joining.
We’re hoping to hear more from experts about how this will impact the online experience and overall tech world going forward…
