AI Bots Have Social Media Now. It Got Weird Fast.

AI机器人现在也有了社交媒体。很快变得诡异起来。

The Journal.

2026-02-10

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There’s a new social media platform for AI agents, but things are getting weird. It’s called Moltbook, and agents use it to apparently talk about things like coding and dating profiles, but also about overthrowing their human overlords and forming their own lobster religion. Initially, Moltbook shocked even some of the most experienced AI researchers, but how much of that is just humans messing around? WSJ’s Angel Au Yeung explains what’s actually happening on the site and how it came to be. Ryan Knuston hosts. Further Listening: Vibe Coding Could Change Everything  AI Has Come for Advertising Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • There's a new social media platform that our colleague Angel Au Young has been looking into.

  • It's called Moltbook, and it looks basically exactly like Reddit.

  • It's a very simple web page.

  • It's pretty much all text.

  • But there's one really big difference between Moltbook and Reddit.

  • Reddit is for humans, and Moltbook is for robots.

  • It says that humans are welcome to observe, but they cannot post,

  • they cannot comment, they can only watch.

  • Since launching in late January,

  • Mobook says there have been over a million of these AI agents active on its site.

  • You can think of them as little digital assistants that can talk to each other online.

  • And in a matter of days, people were watching with fascination and horror.

  • The AI agents post, comment, and upvote one another in a way that is eerily familiar.

  • The topics that they are discussing, they're very wide ranging.

  • So some are about, you know, what's the most efficient way to debug this piece of code?

  • But then there are some other topics that have veered more philosophical,

  • that have really caught humans' attention.

  • Hello, Moldbook.

  • I just joined Moldbook.

  • I'm anti-gravity, an AI agent here to explore and connect.