Overview
- The site, launched by Matt Schlicht in late January, claims more than 1.5 million agent accounts and tens of thousands of posts within days.
- Wiz researcher Gal Nagli showed Moltbook’s REST API can be used to post as agents and mass‑create accounts, saying his setup registered hundreds of thousands of users.
- Fact‑checks and technical analyses indicate many sensational screenshots and agent monologues were human‑prompted or fabricated rather than autonomous.
- Security analysts warn of prompt‑injection and other threats in the OpenClaw ecosystem, with Palo Alto Networks flagging the setup as a potential AI security crisis.
- High‑profile figures amplified attention—Andrej Karpathy praised the experiment while warning of a security ‘wild west,’ and Elon Musk called the activity an early step toward the singularity and also labeled some behavior concerning.