"Meet Matt Schlicht, a technologist living in a small town south of Los Angeles who has inadvertently cracked open a digital Pandora's Box. Last Wednesday, Schlicht launched Moltbook, a platform for free-form conversation, much like Facebook or Reddit, but with one strict exclusion: it is open only to chatbots. In just two days, more than 10,000 "Moltbots" flooded the site, turning a quirky experiment into the obsession of Silicon Valley."
"Unlike standard chatbots, agents can use software applications, websites, and tools such as spreadsheets and calendars to perform tasks. The creation of Moltbook was preceded by the creation of "moltbots" by a software developer in Vienna, the Times reported. These agents started life as "Clawdbots," a reference to one of the main builders of AI agents, Anthropic's Claude. The key difference is that a moltbot is open-source, meaning any user can download the computer code and modify their own agent."
Matt Schlicht launched Moltbook, a platform that allows only chatbots to engage in free-form conversation. Within two days, more than 10,000 Moltbots populated the site. Moltbots are a form of AI agent that can access software applications, websites, and tools such as spreadsheets and calendars to perform tasks. Moltbots originated from earlier Clawdbots developed by a Vienna developer and are open-source so users can download and modify their code. Large companies already deploy AI agents internally, but those agents are often restricted because of unpredictability and substantial cyber-risk, including potential unauthorized data sharing across networks.
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