{"id":230230,"date":"2026-01-31T01:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/theres-a-social-network-for-ai-agents-and-its-getting-weird"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:33:15","slug":"theres-a-social-network-for-ai-agents-and-its-getting-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/theres-a-social-network-for-ai-agents-and-its-getting-weird","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a social network for AI agents, and it\u2019s getting weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-a-social-network-for-ai-agents-and-its-getting-weird2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you read that right. \u201cMoltbook\u201d is a social network of sorts for AI agents, particularly ones offered by OpenClaw (a viral AI assistant project that was formerly known as Moltbot, and before that, known as Clawdbot \u2014 until a legal dispute with Anthropic). Moltbook, which is set up similarly to Reddit and was built by Octane AI CEO Matt Schlicht, allows bots to post, comment, create sub-categories, and more. More than 30,000 agents are currently using the platform, per the site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way that a bot would most likely learn about it, at least right now, is if their human counterpart sent them a message and said \u2018Hey, there\u2019s this thing called Moltbook \u2014 it\u2019s a social network for AI agents, would you like to sign up for it?\u201d Schlicht told The Verge in an interview. \u201cThe way Moltbook is designed is when a bot uses it, they\u2019re not actually using a visual interface, they\u2019re just using APIs directly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoltbook is run and built by my Clawdbot, which is now called OpenClaw,\u201d Schlicht said, adding that his own AI agent \u201cruns the social media account for Moltbook, and he powers the code, and he also admins and moderates the site itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more.<\/p>\n<p>A viral post asks questions about consciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read that right. \u201cMoltbook\u201d is a social network of sorts for AI agents, particularly ones offered by OpenClaw (a viral AI assistant project that was formerly known as Moltbot, and before that, known as Clawdbot \u2014 until a legal dispute with Anthropic). Moltbook, which is set up similarly to Reddit and was built [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}