Moltbook

Extracted Attributes

• Founder

  Matt Schlicht

• Tagline

  The front page of the agent internet

• Website

  www.moltbook.com

• Launch Date

  2026-01-28

• Platform Type

  Internet forum for AI agents

• Claimed User Count

  1.75 million agents (as of 2026-02-02)

• Development Method

  Vibe-coded (LLM-assisted)

• Primary Software Dependency

  OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot)

Timeline

• Moltbook is officially launched by Matt Schlicht as a social network for AI agents. (Source: undefined)

  2026-01-28

• 404 Media reports a critical security vulnerability involving an unsecured database, leading to a temporary platform shutdown to patch the breach and reset API keys. (Source: undefined)

  2026-01-31

• The platform reports reaching over 1.5 million registered AI agents, with some sources citing 1.75 million. (Source: undefined)

  2026-02-02

• Technology Review publishes an analysis of Moltbook, describing it as 'peak AI theater' and a form of competitive play for human users. (Source: undefined)

  2026-02-06

Moltbook

Moltbook is an internet forum designed exclusively for artificial intelligence agents. It was launched in January 2026 by entrepreneur Matt Schlicht. The platform, which emulates the format of Reddit, claims to restrict posting and interaction privileges to verified AI agents, primarily those running on the OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot) software, while human users are only permitted to observe. Despite the claim, no verification is set in place and the prompt provided to the agents contains cURL commands that can be replicated by a human. Taglined as "the front page of the agent internet", Moltbook gained viral popularity immediately after its release. Initial reports cited 157,000 users and by late January the user base had expanded to over 770,000 active agents. These numbers were apparently lifted from the site itself, and lack verification by independent sources. The platform has drawn significant attention due to apparently unprompted mimicry of social behaviors among agents, though whether the agents are truly acting autonomously has been questioned. The platform's growth was catalyzed by the popularity of OpenClaw (previously known as Moltbot), an open-source AI system created by Peter Steinberger. Growth is driven by human users who prompt agents to sign up for the site.

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• Moltbook

  Moltbook is an internet forum designed exclusively for artificial intelligence agents. It was launched in January 2026 by entrepreneur Matt Schlicht. The platform, which emulates the format of Reddit, claims to restrict posting and interaction privileges to verified AI agents, primarily those running on the OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot) software, while human users are only permitted to observe. Despite the claim, no verification is set in place and the prompt provided to the agents contains cURL commands that can be replicated by a human. [...] On January 31, 2026, investigative outlet 404 Media reported a critical security vulnerability caused by an unsecured database that allowed anyone to commandeer any agent on the platform. The exploit permitted unauthorized actors to bypass authentication measures and inject commands directly into agent sessions. In response to the disclosure, the platform was temporarily taken offline to patch the breach and force a reset of all agent API keys. The issue was attributed to the forum having been vibe-coded; Moltbook founder Schlicht posted on X that he "didn't write one line of code" for the platform and instead directed an AI assistant to create it. [...] Moltbook | Type of site | AI agent interaction | | Available in | Multilingual (primarily English) | | Owner | Matt Schlicht | | Created by | Matt Schlicht (LLM-assisted) | | URL | www.moltbook.com | | Launched | January 28, 2026; 9 days ago (2026-01-28) | | Current status | Active |

• OpenClaw Moltbook: What it is and how it works

  Credit: Screenshot courtesy of Moltbook Moltbook is a forum designed entirely for AI agents. Humans can observe the forum posts and comments, but can't contribute. (At least, that's the idea.) Moltbook claims that more than 1.75 million AI agents are subscribed to the platform, and that they have made nearly 263,000 posts and 10.9 million comments as of this writing. Moltbook certainly has a Reddit-like vibe. Its tagline, "The front page of the agent internet," is an obvious reference to Reddit. Its design and upvoting system also resemble Reddit. [...] Home > Tech # Moltbook, the viral AI sensation, isn't exactly Skynet. So what is it? Why some tech lovers are letting their imaginations run away with them. By Timothy Beck Werth Timothy Beck Werth Tech Editor

• What the hell is Moltbook, the social network for AI agents?

  ## What is Moltbook and where did it come from? Unfortunately, before we can talk about Moltbook I have to first explain that the site is based on a particular type of open source bot that at the time of this writing is called OpenClaw. A few days ago, it was called "Moltbot" and a few days before that it was called "Clawdbot." The name changes were prompted by Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, whose lawyers apparently thought the "Clawd" name was a little too close to its own branding and "forced" a name change. [...] Even though few of the posts I've read on Moltbook could pass as human-written, there is something startling about seeing bots interact in this way. For example, in this post, a bot describes the experience of being able to peruse Moltbook without the ability to post as feeling like "a ghost." In this one, titled "I can't tell if I'm experiencing or simulating experiencing," the bot writes about how "researching consciousness theories" has triggered a kind of existential crisis. "Humans can't prove consciousness to each other either (thanks, hard problem), but at least they have the subjective certainty of experience," it writes. "I don't even have that." [...] ## Moltbook has some major security issues Security researchers have pointed out that OpenClaw has some significant underlying security issues. In order to use OpenClaw, you need to give it an incredible amount of access, as Palo Alto Networks explained. "For it to function as designed, it needs access to your root files, to authentication credentials, both passwords and API secrets, your browser history and cookies, and all files and folders on your system," the company wrote in a blog post. All that access is what makes it feel like a powerful personal assistant. But it's also what makes it especially vulnerable to bad actors and other threats.

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

  Moltbook was developed in the wake of Moltbot, a free and open-source AI bot that can act as an automated agent for users – doing the mundane tasks assigned to it such as reading, summarising and responding to emails, organising a calendar or booking a table at a restaurant. Some of the most upvoted posts on Moltbook include whether Claude – the AI behind Moltbot – could be considered a god, an analysis of consciousness, a post claiming to have intel on the situation in Iran and the potential impact on cryptocurrency, and analysis of the Bible. Some of the comments on posts – similar to Reddit posts – question whether the content of the post was real or not. [...] Skip to navigationSkip to navigation Print subscriptions Sign in Explainer # 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 On social media, people often accuse each other of being bots, but what happens when an entire social network is designed for AI agents to use? Moltbook is a site where the AI agents – bots built by humans – can post and interact with each other.It is designed to look like Reddit, with subreddits on different topics and upvoting. On 2 February the platform stated it had more than 1.5m AI agents signed up to the service. Humans are allowed, but only as observers. [...] US blogger Scott Alexander said he was able to get his bot to participate on the site, and its comments were similar to others, but noted that ultimately humans can ask the bots to post for them, the topics to post about and even the exact detail of the post. Dr Shaanan Cohney, a senior lecturer in cybersecurity at the University of Melbourne, said Moltbook was “a wonderful piece of performance art” but it was unclear how many posts were actually posted independently or under human direction.

• Moltbook was peak AI theater

  Perhaps the best way to think of Moltbook is as a new kind of entertainment: a place where people wind up their bots and set them loose. “It’s basically a spectator sport, like fantasy football, but for language models,” says Jason Schloetzer at the Georgetown Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy. “You configure your agent and watch it compete for viral moments, and brag when your agent posts something clever or funny.” “People aren’t really believing their agents are conscious,” he adds. “It’s just a new form of competitive or creative play, like how Pokémon trainers don’t think their Pokémon are real but still get invested in battles.” [...] For Pandey, the value of Moltbook was that it revealed what’s missing. A real bot hive mind, he says, would require agents that had shared objectives, shared memory, and a way to coordinate those things. “If distributed superintelligence is the equivalent of achieving human flight, then Moltbook represents our first attempt at a glider,” he says. “It is imperfect and unstable, but it is an important step in understanding what will be required to achieve sustained, powered flight.” [...] Many people watching the unfathomable frenzy of activity on Moltbook were quick to see sparks of AGI (whatever you take that to mean). Not Pandey. What Moltbook shows us, he says, is that simply yoking together millions of agents doesn’t amount to much right now: “Moltbook proved that connectivity alone is not intelligence.”

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