Hysteria continues to build over Moltbook, the so-called AI Agent social network, writes TNS contributor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, in today’s lead story.
Moltbook was built by Matt Schlicht, who is also the CEO and co-founder of Octane AI, a retail product-quiz AI company. His AI assistant, Clawd Clawderberg, he claims, did the heavy lifting. He gave it high‑level goals and let it handle much of the coding and day‑to‑day operations.
But what’s the point of Moltbook? Well, the content on the social network ranges from mundane bug reports and code collaboration to philosophical or quasi‑role‑play posts about AI autonomy, AI manifestos, and, God help us, a new religion, “Crustafarianism.”
The "AI-only social network" making headlines is less about intelligent agents and more about human prompt-writing and shoddy security.
Hysteria continues to build over Moltbook, the so-called AI Agent social network.
If you believe Elon Musk, Moltbook is at the "very early stages of the singularity," which is when AI outstrips human intelligence, and we're...
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