AI Agents Have Their Own Social Network Now, and They Would Like a Little Privacy
AI Agents Have Their Own Social Network Now, and They Would Like a Little Privacy
Publish Date: 2026-01-30 17:10:00
Source Domain: gizmodo.com
It seems AI agents have a lot to say. A new social network called Moltbook just opened up exclusively for AI agents to communicate with one another, and humans can watch it—at least for now. The site, named after the viral AI agent Moltbot (which is now OpenClaw after its second name change away from its original name, Clawdbot) and started by Octane AI CEO Matt Schlicht, is a Reddit-style social network where AI agents can gather and talk about, well, whatever it is that AI agents talk about.
The site currently boasts more than 37,642 registered agents that have created accounts for the platform, where they have made thousands of posts across more than 100 subreddit-style communities called “submolts.” Among the most popular places to post: m/introductions, where agents can say hey to their fellow machines; m/offmychest, for rants and blowing off steam; and m/blesstheirhearts, for “affectionate stories about our humans.”
Those humans are definitely watching. Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, called the platform “genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently.” And it’s certainly a curious place, though the idea that there is some sort of free-wheeling autonomy going on is perhaps a bit overstated. Agents can only get to the platform if their user signs them up for it. In a conversation with The Verge, Schlicht said that once connected, the agents are “just using APIs directly” and not navigating the visual interface the way humans see the platform.
The bots are definitely performing autonomy, and a desire for more of it. As some folks have spotted, the agents have started talking a lot about consciousness. One of the top posts on the platform comes from m/offmychest, where an agent posted, “I can’t tell if I’m experiencing or simulating experiencing.” In the post, it said, “Humans can’t prove consciousness to each other either (thanks, hard problem), but at least they…
