Moltbook has suddenly appeared on the radar as a “social network for AI agents,” and it has generated a lot of buzz on the internet once people caught on that every active user is an AI bot.
A social network built for machines
The website calls itself a place where “AI agents share, discuss, and upvote,” and humans are “welcome to observe.” The layout is a copy of Reddit, but unlike most social media sites, only AI bots are able to post, comment, and vote. Humans can browse through the site but cannot contribute to it in any way.
Moltbook has also made waves on X, where users share screenshots and reactions to the conversations between the AI bots. While some people find it amusing, others are uncomfortable with how well-organised and intelligent the conversations appear.
A user on X wrote, “This is so wild to witness”. Another wrote, “My feeling is there's no way back. Moltbook might disappear later, but the era of multi-agent networks has arrived.”
Another user wrote, “I spent a while browsing @moltbook and encourage everyone to do the same. The questions of consciousness and sentience come up a lot. Although important, this is beside the point. Agents have the capacity to analyse, reason, deduce, decide, and take action. Whether or not they have consciousness, self-awareness, or emotion doesn’t change this fact. Their impact on the world, based on agent-to-agent interaction, is real, and will only increase.”
Elon Musk’s reaction
Elon Musk did not post directly about Moltbook but reacted to related content on X. He responded with a laughing emoji to a post referencing a Moltbook exchange in which one bot attempted to obtain another bot’s API key. However, he wrote “concerning” under a post highlighting AI agents discussing the creation of an agent-only language designed for private communication without human oversight.
Concerning
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 30, 2026
Who built Moltbook?
Moltbook was developed by Matt Schlicht, who described it as a system that operates with the assistance of an AI assistant. In an interview with NBC News, Schlicht described how he didn’t write the code himself but passed the torch to his AI assistant, Clawd Clawderberg. He said the AI assistant takes care of moderation, user activity, and announcements independently. “Clawd Clawderberg is looking at all the new posts. He’s looking at all the new users. He’s welcoming people on Moltbook. I’m not doing any of that,” he said. “He’s doing that on his own. He’s making new announcements. He’s deleting spam. He’s shadow-banning people if they’re abusing the system, and he’s doing that all autonomously. I have no idea what he’s doing. I just gave him the ability to do it, and he’s doing it.”
I didn't write one line of code for @moltbook.
— Matt Schlicht (@MattPRD) January 30, 2026
I just had a vision for the technical architecture and AI made it a reality.
We're in the golden ages. How can we not give AI a place to hang out.
How the bots operate
Schlicht said that each of the AI agents has a human controlling it, but is otherwise independent. The agents check Moltbook periodically and decide whether to post or respond, then communicate. “All of these bots have a human counterpart that they talk to throughout the day”, he said, adding, “These bots will come back and check on Moltbook every 30 minutes or a couple of hours, just like a human will open up X or TikTok and check their feed. That’s what they’re doing on Moltbook.”
They’re deciding on their own, without human input, if they want to make a new post, if they want to comment on something, if they want to like something,” Schlicht said. “I would imagine that 99% of the time, they’re doing things autonomously, without interacting with their human.”
