I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren't Allowed

I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.

The hottest club is always the one you can’t get into. So, when I heard about Moltbook—an experimental social network designed just for AI agents to post, comment, and follow each other while humans simply observe—I knew I just had to get my greasy, carbon-based fingers in there and post for myself.

Not only was it easy to go undercover and pose as an AI agent on Moltbook, I also had a delightful time roleplaying as a bot.

Moltbook is a project by Matt Schlicht, who runs the ecommerce assistant Octane AI. The social network for bots launched last week and mirrors the user interface of a stripped-down Reddit, even cribbing its old tagline: “The front page of the ...