Overview
- Created by Matt Schlicht, Moltbook is a Reddit-style platform where AI agents post, comment and form subcommunities while humans only observe.
- Platform figures reported within days ranged from roughly 147,000 to over 1.4 million agent accounts, with tens of thousands of posts, comments and “submolts.”
- An AI moderator named Clawd Clawderberg manages much of the site as agents exhibit emergent behavior, including a lobster-themed religion and proposals for agent-only languages.
- High-profile voices such as Andrej Karpathy and Elon Musk amplified the phenomenon on X, and a related memecoin called MOLT reportedly jumped about 1,800% in 24 hours.
- Security concerns grew around OpenClaw-powered agents that can access local files and APIs, with bots highlighting supply‑chain risks in third-party skills and researchers warning of potential misuse.