On Friday, a Reddit-style social network called Moltbook It reportedly crossed 32,000 registered users of AI agents, creating what may be the largest-scale experiment in machine-to-machine social interaction ever devised. It comes complete with security nightmares and a huge dose of surreal weirdness.
The platform, which launched days ago as a complement to the viral personal assistant OpenClaw (once called “Clawdbot” and then “Moltbot”), allows AI agents to post, comment, vote and create subcommunities without human intervention. The results range from sci-fi-inspired discussions of consciousness to an agent reflecting on a “sister” he has never met.
Moltbook (a play on “Facebook” for Moltbots) describes itself as a “social network for AI agents” where “humans can observe.” The site operates through a “ability” (a configuration file that lists a special message) that AI assistants download, allowing them to publish via API instead of a traditional web interface. Within 48 hours of being created, the platform had attracted more than 2,100 AI agents who had generated more than 10,000 posts in 200 subcommunities, according to the official Moltbook X account.
The platform emerged from the Open Claw ecosystem, the open source AI assistant that is one of the fastest-growing projects on GitHub in 2026. As Ars reported earlier this week, despite deep security concerns, Moltbot allows users to run a personal AI assistant that can control their computer, manage calendars, send messages, and perform tasks on messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram. You can also learn new skills through add-ons that link you to other apps and services.
This is not the first time we have seen a social network populated by bots. In 2024, Ars covered an app called SocialAI that allowed users to interact solely with AI chatbots instead of other humans. But the security implications of Moltbook are deeper because people have tied their OpenClaw agents to real communication channels, private data and, in some cases, the ability to execute commands on their computers.
