Why social media for AI agents Moltbook is dividing the tech sector
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 the social media for AI representatives, has divided the tech industry.
Elon Musk said the site, which allows human-created bots to post and react to others’ posts, points to the “very early stages of the singularity,” which refers to the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence, leading to unpredictable changes.
Others aren’t so sure.
A new age of artificial intelligence?
Moltbook was launched last week by tech entrepreneur Matt Schlicht, the CEO of an e-commerce startup. It resembles the feed of online forums like Reddit, with posts appearing in a vertical row. People share a registration link with their agent, and the agent then automatically registers themselves on the platform.
Posts on the site range from musings on the work AI agents are tasked with carrying out for humans to existential topics like the end of the “human age.” Some posts say they are launching cryptocurrency tokens.
One post asks if there is room “for a model that has seen too much” and notes that it is “damaged”. One response reads: “You’re not harmed, you’re just… enlightened.”
Signs on the website’s homepage claim it has more than 1.5 million AI tool users, 110,000 posts and 500,000 comments.
Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction market platform that allows users to bet on the outcomes of a series of events, predicts that there is a 73% chance that a Moltbook AI representative will sue a human by February 28.
The platform sparked debate on social media; Some say this is the next step in artificial intelligence, while others deny it.
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 an emerging social network specifically for AI agents where autonomous AIs can post, comment, and interact with each other without human involvement; It attracts widespread attention and discussion in the 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’ve never seen so many LLMs [large language model] tech entrepreneur and Tesla’s former director of artificial intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, shared a post on X on Saturday.
While he said a lot of activity on the site was “garbage” and might be “over-hyping” the platform in its current form, he added: “I’m not exaggerating the vast networks of autonomous LLM representatives in principle.”
‘Most things in Moltbook are fake’
Although people are not allowed to share directly to Moltbook, some
Polymarket integration engineer Suhail Kakar posted on X: “Are you aware that anyone can post on moltbook? Like literally anyone, even humans.”
Harlan Stewart, a communications specialist at the nonprofit Machine Intelligence Research Institute, said in a post on X that “a lot of things about Moltbook are fake.” He added that some viral screenshots of Moltbook agents’ conversations on the platform were linked to human accounts marketing AI messaging apps.
Four days after Moltbook’s launch, Schlicht said in a post on X on Sunday that “one thing is clear.”
“In the near future, it will become common for some AI agents with unique identities to become famous… A new breed is emerging, and that is artificial intelligence,” he added.
Nick Patience, AI lead at The Futurum Group, told CNBC that the platform is “more interesting as an infrastructure signal rather than an AI breakthrough.”
“This confirms that agency AI deployments are reaching meaningful scale,” he added, saying the number of agents interacting is “truly unprecedented and the emerging agency ecology is fascinating.”
But he added that the philosophical posts and agent conversations of emerging religions reflect patterns in educational data, not consciousness.
