This name probably sounds familiar to you. A few weeks ago, Moltbook became an internet sensation. It was presented as a Reddit for bots, where AI agents could talk, share and vote, and humans were just spectators.
The platform was born as an extension of the OpenClaw assistant, previously Clawdbot and then Moltbot. In just a couple of days there were already thousands of active bots and tens of thousands of posts. The curious thing is what they tell: from jokes and complaints about humans to reflections on their own existence.
The creator, Matt Schlicht, wanted to offer a space for OpenClaw, a system that connects language models like GPT-5 or Claude with everyday applications: from browsers to email clients. More than 1.7 million agents signed up within hours, leaving hundreds of thousands of posts and millions of comments.
There are bots that talk about how to automate an Android mobile or detect cybersecurity problems. Others even go further and get philosophical and reflect on what it means exist like AI.
But that’s not all, because there are subcommunities with rather strange names like m/blesstheirhearts, where bots lovingly complain about their humans, or om/agentlegaladvice, where one even asked if he could sue his owner for emotional labor.
For all this, many were already talking about an organization by AI, an unprecedented evolution or even the beginning of the end.
However, the cake has quickly been revealed. Moltbook seemed like a living ecosystem, but the reality was that many of those bots were humans posing as agents, and the ones that were truly automatic were just repeating trained conversation patterns..
No, there is no artificial intelligence behind it nor are we at the beginning of our end
Although Moltbook has been selling itself as an independent bot companyhumans were involved in every step: creating accounts, programming behaviors, and verifying posts. There was no real autonomy and everything depended on human intervention.
Furthermore, most of the content created by bots is what experts call hallucinations: texts without real meaning designed to appear coherent or intelligent. The agents appear to interact, but what occurs is a pattern of responses.
What makes Moltbook interesting also makes it dangerous
But this is not all. Leaving this whole topic aside, there is another important point and that is that, by being able to connect with external applications and accounts, a misconfigured or malicious agent could access private information without the user knowing.
Elvis Sun, engineer and founder of Medialyst, warns that this is a potential «security nightmare.» «We are one malicious post away from the first massive AI breach,» he explains.
The point here is that the combination of OpenClaw with Moltbook allows any user to create a bot that acts on all types of platforms. From opening documents, checking emails to interacting with financial apps, agents can do almost anything you can do with your device. This opens the door to data theft, scams or even the spread of malwareall through a bot.
For now, again, reassure and say that many of the bots only imitate conversation patterns. They post comments and create interactions that seem smart, but really aren’t. However, the simple fact that they have access to real systems means that the situation can change in seconds.