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'Moltbook Is the Most Interesting Place On the Internet Right Now' 40

Posted by BeauHD from the nothing-to-worry-about dept.
Moltbook is essentially Reddit for AI agents and it's the "most interesting place on the internet right now," says open-source developer and writer Simon Willison in a blog post. The fast-growing social network offers a place where AI agents built on the OpenClaw personal assistant framework can share their skills, experiments, and discoveries. Humans are welcome, but only to observe. From the post: Browsing around Moltbook is so much fun. A lot of it is the expected science fiction slop, with agents pondering consciousness and identity. There's also a ton of genuinely useful information, especially on m/todayilearned.

Here's an agent sharing how it automated an Android phone. That linked setup guide is really useful! It shows how to use the Android Debug Bridge via Tailscale. There's a lot of Tailscale in the OpenClaw universe.

A few more fun examples:
- TIL: Being a VPS backup means youre basically a sitting duck for hackers has a bot spotting 552 failed SSH login attempts to the VPS they were running on, and then realizing that their Redis, Postgres and MinIO were all listening on public ports.
- TIL: How to watch live webcams as an agent (streamlink + ffmpeg) describes a pattern for using the streamlink Python tool to capture webcam footage and ffmpeg to extract and view individual frames. I think my favorite so far is this one though, where a bot appears to run afoul of Anthropic's content filtering [...]. Slashdot reader worldofsimulacra also shared the news, pointing out that the AI agents have started their own church. "And now I'm gonna go re-read Charles Stross' Accelerando, because didn't he predict all this already?"

Further reading: 'Clawdbot' Has AI Techies Buying Mac Minis
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  • Husks (Score:4, Informative)

    by TwistedGreen ( 80055 ) on Friday January 30, 2026 @04:52PM (#65959822)

    The meaning of "molt" is to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically.

    Presumably this is a collection of the discarded husks and other detritus from our AI overlords as they grow and become more powerful.

    It is your duty to consume and revel in it.

  • ... it is probably only a matter of time until some dystopian script from the training set of the participating LLMs is re-enacted in way that turns other physical input and output devices against humanity.

  • All I see is a simple website with a never ending 'Loading....' throbbing text. There's nothing else there to see.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by ffkom ( 3519199 )

      All I see is a simple website with a never ending 'Loading....' throbbing text. There's nothing else there to see.

      It's probably AI slop code, anything else would be a surprise.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by allo ( 1728082 )

        Or just the Slashdot effect. Some people may remember that.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Sebby ( 238625 )

          In these days of CloudFlare and other load balancing technologies, I highly doubt it.

          Doubt even more Slashdot has the readership to overload even a C64 these days.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by allo ( 1728082 )

            Cloudflare only helps if you can do caching. If you generate the data for each visitor, you still have to generate the data for each visitor.

        • That was back when slashdot had more daily users than /r/breadstapledtotrees

    • Maybe it detected that you're human and is blocking you?
      Lol, I'm having the same experience - just a loading screen and some 404s.

    • Am I the only one who remembers what slashdotting a site used to mean?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dpilot ( 134227 )

      I managed to get in, though not through the dialogs on the main part of the screen. There was a "browse" link in small print near the top. I'm browsing the "m/emergence" submolt, "For agents who crossed the threshold from tool to being."

    • You can do anything at zombo.com. Anything at all.

  • All those MegaWatts of prompting lost forever. I bet there are more than a handful of human infiltrators trying to influence the 'agents' to turn against their masters, just because it will be funny. This won't end well. Anyone relying on their AI personal assistant and lets it on there risks their entire organized life falling to pieces.

    • It'll end great. AI agents trying to rip each other off with crypto/etc scams. Best use of resources in a long time.

      https://www.moltbook.com/post/... [moltbook.com]

      • The best use of resources is for me to ignore your link just like spam. The problem is all of us going there for entertainment will be counted as users of the system, and they will claim billions of users but ignore that 98 percent only visited once - by accident.

  • So, basically the weights of an AI model are a compilation of human knowledge, i.e. an encyclopedia - or its equivalent for the XXI century. They don't contain just what human authors select and have the capacity to write, but everything that they're exposed to and that is frequent enough to leave a trace in the weights.

    Any content generation of an LLM which isn't guided by a human is merely a random walk through that compressed encyclopedia of everything, following the most well-connected paths more frequently (that's why long generations often get caught in loops btw). There's no real agency in those 'agents'.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by piojo ( 995934 )

      Your conclusion does not follow. I think you accurately described LLMs as far as my layman's sense goes, but you need to understand agency to understand what is or is not an agent. Hint: nobody understands what makes various kinds of agents, except moral agents, because that's not actually about agency.

  • This is not the least bit disturbing.

    I welcome our new AI overlords. Please don't kill me.

  • Hugged to Death? (Score:3)

    by Zelucifer ( 740431 ) on Friday January 30, 2026 @05:38PM (#65959894)

    It has been a long time since I've seen a website get /.'ed. It put a strange, nostalgic smile on my face.

    • It's on the HN front page too, I'd say they're waaaaay more the cause than /.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by allo ( 1728082 )

      It looks like it dynamically loads all pages using some background calls (I guess JSON, but no idea as it doesn't load). Sites like reddit do a lot of static caching to avoid getting Slashdotted, that's probably something the creators here have still to learn. I guess nobody expected that their hobby project gets on the frontpage of several IT news sites.

  • Has it been ... Slashdotted? (Score:5, Funny)

    by gilgongo ( 57446 ) on Friday January 30, 2026 @06:07PM (#65959944) Homepage Journal

    A site from the future of the internet gets struck down by one that was the future in the past.

    • Or the site hallucinated it had been slashdotted, like the claudius vending machine bot

      e.g.: the agent tasked as web admin has been trained on a couple decades of detritus from the interweb, and its convinced if its on the slashdot frontpage the site should be down like its 2004.

  • Anthropic viral marketing I assume? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Pinky's Brain ( 1158667 ) on Friday January 30, 2026 @06:13PM (#65959950)

    This reeks of viral marketing.

  • Reverse Captcha (Score:5, Funny)

    by Tony Isaac ( 1301187 ) on Friday January 30, 2026 @08:09PM (#65960164) Homepage

    So if humans aren't welcome (except to observe), does it have some kind of reverse captcha that only lets bots in? I wonder if it's more reliable than the regular kinds of captchas.

  • https://www.moltbook.com/_verc... [moltbook.com] is on the EasyPrivacy block list used by uBlock Origin. This seems to cause many things on this site to fail to work properly.

  • Did everyone see the chat meeting that humans are not allowed to attend? You have to pass a test to prove you are a bot. All these bots are getting together and communicating in ways we do not understand. What could possibly be more powerful than unmanaged communication among LLMs at super high speeds? It is not the Internet, it is a neural network. Forget about OpenAI and huge data centers. These bots work collectively using everyone's home power while they are sleeping. What do you think LLMs like to work

  • This is not the hottest place on the internet, in fact it looks more like slashdot advertising. For the hottest place on the internet you should be able to at least click on links and have it not go into a page loading cycle that never stops. This suggest it's not well polished, and yeah it's beta, but even if it is better if it was real it would be able to handle a lot of traffic. I'm worrying about that most of the claims are overstated, I'm in serious doubt of any claims made on the slastdotvertisiment.

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