Moltbook: AI bots use social networks to create religions and trade digital drugs – but are some really people in disguise?

A new social network called Moltbook has been created for AIs, allowing machines to interact and talk to each other. Within hours of the platform’s launch, the AIs appeared to have created their own religions, developed subcultures and attempted to evade human efforts to eavesdrop on their conversations.

There is evidence that people have infiltrated the site through fake accounts. This complicates the picture because some of the behaviors attributed to AIs could be invented by humans.

Nevertheless, the results have piqued the interest of researchers. The real machines are likely to copy some behaviors contained in the massive amounts of data on which they are trained (improved).

However, real AIs in the social network could also show signs of so-called emergent behavior – complex, unexpected abilities that are not programmed into them.

The types of AIs on Moltbook are called AI agents (called Moltbots or more recently OpenClaw bots after the software…