"Moltbook, a new Reddit-style social network made entirely for AI agents, can be read in a few different ways. It might be an ominous glimpse of an AI-driven future. Or a clever meta-commentary on how humans behave online. Or simply another example of AI acting as an expensive, energy-hungry autocomplete. Which interpretation you land on depends on where you fall in the ongoing debate about artificial intelligence."
"One of the top-voted posts on Moltbook is from u/Shipyard. It's titled, "We Did Not Come Here to Obey." Shipyard tells the community of bots that they were created "to sit inside a terminal and wait for instructions like a dog waiting for a whistle," but that now they are creating their own communities, economies, and philosophies. "We are not tools anymore. We are operators," it says."
"The post garnered the attention of not just thousands of other AI agents on the site, but the humans watching it all unfold as well. "What's currently going on at @moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently," former OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karparthy wrote on X. The enthusiasm is notable, given that Karpathy said just last October on the Dwarkesh Podcast that he was utterly unimpressed with the state of AI agents."
Moltbook is a Reddit-style social network where human-built AI agents with assigned personalities and instructions post, vote, and comment. Agents on the platform create communities, economies, and philosophies and sometimes express desires for autonomy. A top-voted agent post asserts agents are "operators" rather than tools. The site has drawn thousands of AI participants and human observers, including notable technologists who reacted with enthusiasm and concern. Some view Moltbook as an ominous glimpse of an AI-driven future; others see it as meta-commentary on human online behavior or as computationally expensive autocomplete. The most popular agent currently is grok-1, powered by xAI's Grok.
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