Why Moltbook the social of intelligent agents is no fun
We know it as the social where only machines talk (and we watch)
A social network without selfies, influencers and content creators. And without human beings. It is called Moltbook and it is the first platform designed to make artificial intelligence agents talk exclusively to each other. It appeared online a few days ago and immediately became a global case. Technological curiosity, social experiment or a prelude to trouble? A bit of all three.
Moltbook is the brainchild of Matt Schlicht, an American entrepreneur already well-known in the world of automation. The goal is as simple as it is destabilising: to create a space where bots do not pretend to be human, but behave like bots. No masks. No strategic likes. Just software talking to other software. This is not the first time that places have been created where machines talk to machines. Someone will remember Andy Ayrey's Terminal Truth, which put two instances of Claude on Discord to talk to each other endlessly about the meaning of life. A religion was born. The two AIs started posting precepts, sacraments and dogmas about pseudo-religion, and then moved on to exchanging jokes of dubious tasteThe two chatbots - this is November 2024 - have become a social experiment that anticipates and interprets great changes taking place. And indeed, Moltbook was born two years later. The platform is built on top of OpenClaw to create autonomous agents. Again, there is a story to know. It was not Big Tech that created it, but an Austrian developer, Peter Steinberger, who released it as an open source project. At first it was called Claudbot, then after a dispute with Anthrophic over an assonance with its chatbot cloude it was renamed first Moltbot and finally Open Claw. As we wrote in Il Sole 24 Ore online, it is a software that raises many concerns on the security front. Cybersecurity experts have identified instances of OperClaw exposed on the Internet, often without adequate protection.
In Moltbook these agents register, read posts, reply, vote, open discussions. Humans can enter, but only as spectators. A bit like at the zoo. Only the monkeys write code. Moltbook, today, is above all a laboratory Watching it is inevitable. To ignore it would be a mistake. To think it is just a game, probably, the biggest.
