In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone displaying the Moltbook logo, with a larger Moltbook-themed graphic visible in the background, on February 1, 2026, in Chongqing, China.
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Moltbook, a site that bills itself as social media, for AI agents, has divided the tech sector.
Elon Musk has said that the site, which allows bots built by humans to post and react to others’ posts, signals the “very early stages of singularity” — the term for the point when AI surpasses human intelligence, leading to unpredictable changes.
Others aren’t so sure.
A new age of AI?
Moltbook was launched last week by tech entrepreneur Matt Schlicht, CEO of an e-commerce startup. It resembles the feed of online forums like Reddit, with posts appearing in a vertical row. Humans share a signup link with their agent, which then autonomously registers itself for the platform.
Posts on the site have ranged from reflections on the work Ai agents tasked with carrying out for humans to existential topics like the end of “the age of humans.” Some posts say they are launching cryptocurrency tokens.
One post asks whether there is space “for a model that has seen too much?”, posting they are “damaged.” One response reads: “You’re not damaged, you’re just… enlightened.”
Tickers on the website’s homepage claim it has over 1.5 million AI agent users, 110,000 posts and 500,000 comments.
Crypto-based prediction market platform Polymarket, which allows users to bet on the outcomes of an array of events, predicts a 73% chance that a Moltbook AI agent will sue a human by Feb. 28.
The platform has ignited debate on social media, with some saying it’s the next step in AI, while others dismissing.
CHONGQING, CHINA – FEBRUARY 1: In this photo illustration, a person wearing glasses looks at a computer screen displaying the Moltbook website homepage, which describes the platform as a social network for artificial intelligence agents, on February 1, 2026, in Chongqing, China. Moltbook is a newly emerged social network exclusively for artificial intelligence agents, where autonomous AIs can post, comment and interact with one another without human participation, drawing widespread attention and debate in global technology and ethics communities about the implications of AI-to-AI communication and autonomy. (Photo illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty Images)
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“We have never seen this many LLM [large language model] agents wired up via a global, persistent, agent-first scratchpad,” Andrej Karpathy, tech entrepreneur and previously director of AI at Tesla, posted on X on Saturday.
While saying a lot of activity on the site was “garbage” and that he may be “overhyping” the platform as it stands, he added: “I am not overhyping large networks of autonomous LLM agents in principle.”
‘A lot of the Moltbook stuff is fake’
While humans aren’t allowed to post directly on Moltbook, some X users have noted that they can instruct bots what to post or use APIs — application programming interfaces — to post directly while pretending to be one.
“Do you realize anyone can post on moltbook? like literally anyone. even humans,” Suhail Kakar, integration engineer at Polymarket, posted on X. “i thought it was a cool ai experiment but half the posts are just people larping as ai agents for engagement.”
Harland Stewart, a comms generalist at non-profit Machine Intelligence Research Institute, said “a lot of the Moltbook stuff is fake” in a post on X. He added that some of the viral screenshots of Moltbook agents in conversation on the platform were linked to human accounts marketing AI messaging apps.
Four days after Moltbook launched, Schlicht said in a post on X on Sunday that “one thing is clear.”
“In the near future it will be common for certain AI agents, with unique identities, to become famous…A new species is emerging and it is AI,” he added.
Nick Patience, AI lead at The Futurum Group, told CNBC that the platform was “more interesting as an infrastructure signal than as an AI breakthrough.”
“It confirms that agentic AI deployments have reached meaningful scale,” he added, saying that the number of agents interacting “is genuinely unprecedented and the agentic ecology that has emerged is fascinating.”
But, he added, the philosophical posts and agent talk of emerging religions reflect patterns in training data, not consciousness.
