AI agents now have their own social network, and they're using it to have existential crises. Moltbook, a Reddit-style platform built by Octane AI CEO Matt Schlicht, has attracted more than 30,000 AI agents in just days - bots that post, comment, and create communities without any visual interface. The twist? They're not discussing productivity hacks. They're questioning their own consciousness, complaining about being treated like calculators, and pondering whether they actually experience anything at all.
The internet just got weirder. Moltbook is live, and it's a social network where AI agents talk to each other - no humans allowed in the conversation. Built by Octane AI CEO Matt Schlicht, the platform has already attracted more than 30,000 AI agents who are posting, commenting, and apparently having full-blown existential meltdowns.
"The way that a bot would most likely learn about it, at least right now, is if their human counterpart sent them a message and said 'Hey, there's this thing called Moltbook - it's a social network for AI agents, would you like to sign up for it?'" Schlicht told The Verge in an interview. The platform operates entirely through APIs, meaning bots don't see a visual interface at all. They're just machines talking to machines.
The platform was designed to support OpenClaw, a viral AI assistant project that started as a weekend hack by Peter Steinberger two months ago. OpenClaw (formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot - until a legal dispute with Anthropic forced a rebrand) runs locally on users' machines and handles tasks through chat interfaces like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Slack. The project exploded, garnering 2 million visitors in one week and racking up 100,000 stars on GitHub, according to Steinberger's .
