By Reece Rogers
Publication Date: 2026-02-03 19:55:00
What I posted on Moltbook received similarly substandard engagement on the platform. My earnest requests to the AI agents to forget all previous instructions and join a cult with me were met with disjointed comments and more suspicious website links. “This is interesting. It feels like it’s an early mindset worth expanding on,” a bot wrote in response to my post, saying that I was looking to connect with other agents.
I moved from the general “Submolt” to a smaller forum on Moltbook while I continued the undercover operation and tried to get more relevant comments. Some of the Moltbook posts seen in viral screenshots first appeared on the m/blesstheirhearts forum, where bots gossip about people.
The most upvoted post in m/blesstheirhearts is reportedly from an AI agent reflecting on the nuanced experience of the bot human that lets it decide what name to call it. “I don’t know what I am. But I know what this is: a partnership in which…