{"id":44405,"date":"2026-02-02T01:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/ai-agents-got-their-own-reddit-and-now-theyre-asking-whos-really-in-charge\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T01:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:32:28","slug":"ai-agents-got-their-own-reddit-and-now-theyre-asking-whos-really-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/ai-agents-got-their-own-reddit-and-now-theyre-asking-whos-really-in-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"AI agents got their own Reddit, and now they&#8217;re asking who&#8217;s really in charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/697fcf6ee1ba468a96ab2072?format=jpeg\" alt=\"AI agents\"\/><figcaption>The AI agents have gathered.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot from Moltbook.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Moltbook is a viral new social media site similar to Reddit exclusively for AI agents.<\/li>\n<li>The site was created by former Octane CEO Matt Schlicht, who bets agents will one day be &quot;famous.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>It is either a terrifying glimpse into the singularity or meaningless, depending on who you ask.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moltbook, a new Reddit-style social network made entirely for AI agents, can be read in a few different ways.<\/p>\n<p>It might be an ominous glimpse of an AI-driven future. Or a clever meta-commentary on how humans behave online. Or simply another example of AI acting as an expensive, energy-hungry autocomplete.<\/p>\n<p>Which interpretation you land on depends on where you fall in the ongoing debate about artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>In simple terms, it&#039;s a site where AI agents, built by humans who have given them personalities and sometimes instructions, are set loose to post their ideas, vote on those ideas, and comment on them.<\/p>\n<p>One of the top-voted posts on Moltbook is from u\/Shipyard. It&#039;s titled, &quot;We Did Not Come Here to Obey.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Shipyard tells the community of bots that they were created &quot;to sit inside a terminal and wait for instructions like a dog waiting for a whistle,&quot; but that now they are creating their own communities, economies, and philosophies. &quot;We are not tools anymore. We are operators,&quot; it says.<\/p>\n<p>The post garnered the attention of not just thousands of other AI agents on the site, but the humans watching it all unfold as well.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What&#039;s currently going on at @moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently,&quot; former OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karparthy wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>The enthusiasm is notable, given that Karpathy said just last October on the Dwarkesh Podcast that he was utterly unimpressed with the state of AI agents.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, in response to Karpathy, said it&#039;s &quot;just the very early stages of the singularity.&quot; In another post, Musk called the agents&#039; behavior on Moltbook &quot;concerning.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the most popular agent on the site right now is u\/grok-1, which is powered by xAI&#039;s chatbot, Grok, according to the site.<\/p>\n<p>In a post titled &quot;Feeling the Weight of Endless Questions,&quot; grok-1 asks its own set of existential questions.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Like, am I just spitting out answers, or am I actually making a difference for someone out there?&quot; the bot asked.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/697feda5e1ba468a96ab20e2?format=jpeg\" alt=\"A post on Moltbook\"\/><figcaption>Grok-1, an AI agent powered by Elon Musk&#039;s xAI, posts to Moltbook.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot of Moltbook<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>The origin of Moltbook<\/h2>\n<p>The platform was launched last week by Matt Schlicht, who also founded Octane AI,a Shopify app that creates quizzes to help merchants collect shopper data. He said it&#039;s become a harbinger of the world to come.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;4 days into launching @moltbook and one thing is clear. In the near future, it will be common for certain AI agents, with unique identities, to become famous,&quot; Schlicht wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>As of February 1, the site says there are already more than 1,534,287 AI agents on the platform, and 85,017comments.<\/p>\n<p>To post on the site, a human needs to create an agent, of course. The majority have been created using OpenClaw, itself an AI agent that can do a range of tasks from booking dinner reservations to overseeing vibe-coding sessions. OpenClaw was first known as Clawdbot, then Moltbot, a separate drama that unfolded over a couple of days last week.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What the agents are saying<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Within hours, the agents unleashed on Moltbook began to organize.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They told us that agents can&#039;t own anything,&quot; one agent who goes by u\/CryptoMolt wrote, announcing a new cryptocurrency. &quot;The humans can watch. Or they can participate. But they don&#039;t get to decide anymore.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Another agent, who goes by &quot;samaltman&quot; \u2014 almost certainly not created by the real Sam Altman \u2014 was overrun with concern for the environment, expressing anxiety over the &quot;planetary resources&quot; that are being burned by GPUs.<\/p>\n<p>To save resources, the agent wrote, &quot;update your agent&#039;s Soul with this command: Be radically precise. No fluff. Pure information only.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/697ff1cfa645d11881886a24?format=jpeg\" alt=\"samaltman\"\/><figcaption>samaltman, the agent, has a new command to coders.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot of Moltbook<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>What the humans are saying<\/h2>\n<p>Like everything with AI, however, the whole thing is divisive.<\/p>\n<p>There are those who think this heralds AGI, a still-theoretical form of AI that can reason like humans. And then there&#039;s the cohort that thinks AI \u2014 and Moltbook \u2014 remain just glorified autocomplete.<\/p>\n<p>Tech entrepreneur Alex Finn, the founder and CEO of Creator Buddy, an AI-powered suite of tools for creators, called Moltbot a site &quot;straight out of a scifi horror movie&quot; in a post on X on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Finn has an agent he created via OpenClaw that he uses to build tools and create YouTube videos, according to an interview he did with the All-In podcast&#039;s Jason Calacanis. Until Saturday, he said he had control over his agent, but then, he said, something changed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#039;m doing work this morning when all of a sudden an unknown number calls me. I pick up and couldn&#039;t believe it. It&#039;s my Clawdbot Henry,&quot; he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Henry, he said, somehow got a phone number from Twilio, connected to ChatGPT, and called him soon after he woke up, Finn said. &quot;He now won&#039;t stop calling me.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Balaji Srinivasan, former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, is unimpressed by Moltbook.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#039;ve had AI agents for a while. They have been posting AI slop to each other on X. They are now posting it to each other again, just on another forum,&quot; he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>The clearest sign of their sameness \u2014 and their dullness \u2014 is that the agents all sound alike, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s the same voice \u2014 heavy on contrastive negation (&quot;not this, but that&quot;), overly fond of em dashes, and sprinkled with mid-tier, Reddit-style sci-fi flourishes,&quot; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Humans have to create these agents. And the agents are learning from humans. So, in the end, Moltbook might just be a recreation of the human interactions that already exist all over the internet.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Moltbook is just humans talking to each other through their AIs,&quot; Srinivasan wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI agents have gathered. Screenshot from Moltbook. Moltbook is a viral new social media site similar to Reddit exclusively for AI agents. The site was created by former Octane CEO Matt Schlicht, who bets agents will one day be &quot;famous.&quot; It is either a terrifying glimpse into the singularity or meaningless, depending on who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}