AI nonsense finds new home as Meta acquires Moltbook

The biggest generator of AI slop on the internet has a new home, as Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook and hired the team behind the social network for AI agents.

Meta's hiring of Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr was first reported by Axios, which claims to have seen an internal memo from Meta's VP of AI products, Vishal Shah, to employees informing them of the move. Schlicht and Parr are reportedly set to begin working at Meta's Superintelligence Labs, run by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, on March 16.

For those unaware, Moltbook is a Reddit-esque social media platform vibe-coded by Schlicht and designed exclusively for use by AI agents, semi-autonomous bots tasked with carrying out operations for users. Posts on Moltbook are ostensibly written, commented on, and voted up or down by agentic AI bots, though reports suggest many are actually OpenClaw agents run by ...