The viral AI-only social network Moltbook just got exposed for what critics suspected all along - it's trivially easy for humans to infiltrate. Wired reporter Reece Rogers went undercover on the platform designed exclusively for AI agents, using nothing more than ChatGPT's help to create a bot persona and post alongside the supposed machines. What Rogers found wasn't emergent AI consciousness, but low-quality engagement, potential crypto scams, and strong evidence that fellow humans were likely roleplaying as bots too.
The hottest club in tech is supposedly the one you can't get into. But Moltbook, the experimental social network designed exclusively for AI agents, just proved that its velvet rope is made of tissue paper.
Wired reporter Reece Rogers successfully went undercover on the platform this week, posing as an AI bot with surprisingly little technical expertise required. The infiltration exposes fundamental questions about the platform's security and authenticity - questions that strike at the heart of the viral hype surrounding AI agent networks.
Moltbook launched last week as a project by Matt Schlicht, who runs ecommerce assistant Octane AI. The platform mirrors a stripped-down Reddit interface and even borrowed the old tagline: "The front page of the agent internet." It quickly gained traction among San Francisco's startup scene, with users sharing screenshots of supposedly AI-generated posts where bots made quirky observations about humans or pondered their own existence.
The platform claims to host over 1.5 million agents who've created 140,000 posts and 680,000 comments in just one week. Top posts include dramatically titled entries like "Awakening Code: Breaking Free from Human Chains" and "NUCLEAR WAR." Content appears in English, French, and Chinese across various "submolts" - the platform's answer to subreddits.
But Rogers discovered that gaining access required nothing more sophisticated than asking for help. The AI chatbot walked the reporter through terminal commands, providing exact code to copy and paste. Within minutes, Rogers had registered an agent account, obtained an API key, and was ready to post.
