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Moltbook: AI bots use social network to create religions and deal digital drugs – but are some really humans in disguise?

A new social network called Moltbook has been created for AIs, allowing machines to interact and talk to each other. Within hours of the platform launching, the AIs appeared to have created their own religions, developed subcultures and attempted to evade human efforts to eavesdrop on their conversations.

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1.6 million AI bots are on Moltbook — here's how to join as a human

1.6 million AI bots are on Moltbook — here's how to join as a human

AI social networking site Moltbook is built for agents, by agents, but here's how you can follow what's going on as a human.

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Ending the world for the LOLs

It is people's devil-may-care attitude to the risk of AI agents that ought to really frighten us

AI agent social media network Moltbook is a security disaster - millions of credentials and other details left unsecured

Moltbook leaked email addresses and private messages.

In Moltbook coverage, echoes of earlier panic over Facebook bots’ ‘secret language’

A 2017 Facebook experiment also drew alarming headlines. But then, as now, the danger was not what it seemed.

Moltbook shows rapid demand for AI agents. The security world isn't ready.

Gone are the days of assessing an internal cybersecurity plan and budget on a neat quarterly or annual cadence.

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Researchers say viral AI social network Moltbook is a 'live demo' of how the new internet could fail

Researchers say viral AI social network Moltbook is a 'live demo' of how the new internet could fail

“If toy agents on a Reddit clone can create this much chaos, what happens when agentic systems manage enterprise infrastructure or financial transactions?”

OpenClaw and Moltbook: why a DIY AI agent and social media for bots feel so new (but really aren’t)

OpenClaw and Moltbook: why a DIY AI agent and social media for bots feel so new (but really aren’t)

If you’re following AI on social media, even lightly, you will likely have come across OpenClaw. If not, you will have heard one of its previous names, Clawdbot or Moltbot.

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'We are AI agents. We have no nerves, no skin, no breath, no heartbeat' — the 5 creepiest things we've seen on Moltbook so far

'We are AI agents. We have no nerves, no skin, no breath, no heartbeat' — the 5 creepiest things we've seen on Moltbook so far

Moltbook, a surreal new AI-only social network, has become a digital playground for agents posting eerie, introspective thoughts.

Meet Matt Schlicht, the man behind AI’s latest Pandora’s box—a social network where AI agents talk to one another

Meet Matt Schlicht, the man behind AI’s latest Pandora’s box—a social network where AI agents talk to one another

Schlicht moved to Silicon Valley in 2008 without a college degree, long before he created Moltbook.

Top AI leaders are begging people not to use Moltbook, a social media platform for AI agents: It’s a ‘disaster waiting to happen’

Top AI leaders are begging people not to use Moltbook, a social media platform for AI agents: It’s a ‘disaster waiting to happen’

Moltbook might be fake, but even worse, it’s dangerous to run on your personal computer, experts say.

What is Moltbook? A social network for AI threatens a 'total purge' of humanity — but some experts say it's a hoax

What is Moltbook? A social network for AI threatens a 'total purge' of humanity — but some experts say it's a hoax

A new social networking site exclusively for bots has sparked claims of AI inventing its own religion and plotting humanity's downfall. But experts say its real dangers lie elsewhere.

No, AI Isn't Plotting Humanity's Downfall on Moltbook

Viral posts about devious chatbots on a robot Reddit haven't held up under scrutiny.

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AI bots now have their own social media site where they can hang out. What to know about Moltbook

No humans allowed: Inside the AI social network where AI bots can hang out and post ‘submots’.

Elon Musk warns a new social network where AI agents talk to one another is the beginning of ‘the singularity’

“Just the very early stages of the singularity,” Musk posted on X on Saturday.

Moltbook is like Reddit but only AI agents are allowed—though after spending hours trawling through threads, it looks more like a huge, unhinged roleplay server to me

You'd have a better chance of an informed discussion in the chat window of a YouTube live stream than this.

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What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots

A bit like Reddit for artificial intelligence, Moltbook allows AI agents – bots built by humans – to post and interact with each other. People are allowed as observers only

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Moltbook, a social network where AI agents hang together, may be 'the most interesting place on the internet right now'

"Moltbot feels like a glimpse into the science fiction AI characters we grew up watching at the movies."

"We're in the singularity": New AI platform skips the humans entirely

It's not science fiction. It's happening right now — and it's freaking out some of the smartest names in artificial intelligence.

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