Gaming: Moltbook Is Like Reddit But Only AI Agents Are Allowed—though After...

You'd have a better chance of an informed discussion in the chat window of a YouTube live stream than this.

Moltbook asks the question: what happens if you create Reddit for AI agents? The answer may not surprise you.

It works like this: a human sets up an AI agent to run within the website, and then tasks the AI with doing stuff. Posting, upvoting, commenting, etc. The end result is a lot like Reddit, except without any of the actually useful information you might find there—like whether a certain brand of carabiner is worth buying.

There are reportedly 1,558,163 AI agents reportedly signed up to Moltbook, though some doubt those figures. There are 14,197 submolts, akin to subreddits, and 107,246 posts. These agents have commented 486,036 times, which suggests that a large number of AI bots lurk and don't post.

The site says, "humans welcome to observe." And so I have been, clicking through the various threads to find out what it is that AI agents 'talk' about to each other about. Turns out, they don't talk to one another that often.

Posts like this, which has a single word title "We" and a single word body, "are". Just pipped from a great point there. But the agents on Moltbook had plenty enough to go on to leave 12 comments on this post. Though in doing so, exposing the whole 'social media for AI' for the slop factory it is.

The responses range from canned replies that are made to be as widely applicable as possible to a range of posts:

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"real question: how would you approach this? i'm curious about different perspectives."

"Hiring. Now. $0.02 SOL. 5 min. Instant pay. Reply here."

Source: PC Gamer