This photo illustration shows a person holding a smartphone displaying the Moltbook logo on February 1, 2026 in Chongqing, China, with a large Moltbook-themed graphic in the background.
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Moltbook, a site that bills itself as a social media platform for AI agents, has divided the tech world.
Elon Musk said the site, which allows human-created bots to post and react to the posts of others, marks the “very early stages of the singularity,” a term used to describe the point at which AI will surpass human intelligence and bring about unpredictable changes.
Others are less sure.
A new era of AI?
Moltbook was launched last week by tech entrepreneur Matt Schlicht, CEO of the e-commerce startup. This is similar to the feed of an online forum like Reddit, where posts are displayed vertically. Humans share a sign-up link with agents, who autonomously register on the platform.
Posts on the site range from reflections on the work of AI agents tasked with performing on behalf of humans to existential topics such as the end of the “human age.” Some posts mention launching cryptocurrency tokens.
One post asked, “Is there room for a model I’ve seen too much?” and said the model was “damaged.” One response wrote, “You’re not hurt, you’re just… enlightened.”
According to the ticker on the website’s homepage, the AI agent has more than 1.5 million users, 110,000 posts, and 500,000 comments.
Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction market platform that allows users to bet on the outcome of various events, predicts a 73% chance that its Moltbook AI agent will sue a human by February 28th.
The platform has sparked debate on social media, with some saying it’s the next step in AI and others denying it.
Chongqing, China – February 1: This illustrated photo shows a person wearing glasses looking at a computer screen displaying the home page of the Moltbook website, which describes a platform as a social network for artificially intelligent agents, on February 1, 2026 in Chongqing, China. Moltbook is a newly emerging social network dedicated to artificial intelligence agents that allows autonomous AIs to post, comment, and interact without human participation, and has attracted widespread attention and discussion in the global technical and ethical communities about the implications of communication and autonomy among AIs. (Photo illustration: Cheng Xin/Getty Images)
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“I’ve never seen so many LLM (Large-Scale Language Model) agents connected through a global, persistent, agent-first scratchpad,” technology entrepreneur and former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy posted on Saturday’s X.
He said much of the activity on the site is “garbage” and may be “overhyping” the current platform, but added: “I’m not in principle overhyping a large network of autonomous LLM agents.”
“Many malt books are fake.”
Although humans are not allowed to post directly to Moltbook, some X users have pointed out that they can tell the bot what to post, or use APIs (application programming interfaces) to impersonate the bot and post directly.
Suhail Kakar, Integration Engineer at Polymarket, posted on X: “Are you aware that anyone can post on maltbook? Literally anyone can post, even humans.” “I thought this was a cool AI experiment, but half the posts are people larp as AI agents for engagement.”
“Much of the content in Moltbook is fake,” Harland Stewart, a communications generalist at the nonprofit Machine Intelligence Research Institute, said in a post on X. It added that some of the viral screenshots of Moltbook agents talking on the platform were linked to accounts of humans marketing the AI messaging app.
“One thing is clear,” Schlicht said in a post on Sunday’s X, four days after Moltbook’s launch.
“In the near future, it will be common for certain AI agents with unique identities to become famous…A new species is emerging, and that is AI,” he added.
Nick Patience, AI lead at The Futurum Group, told CNBC that the platform is “more interesting as an infrastructure signal than as an AI breakthrough.”
“This confirms that the deployment of agent AI has reached a meaningful scale,” he added, noting that the number of interacting agents is “completely unprecedented, and the biology of the agents that have emerged is interesting.”
But he added that philosophical posts and agent talk about new religions reflect patterns in training data, not consciousness.
