Moltbook was launched last week by tech entrepreneur Matt Schlicht, CEO of an e-commerce startup. It’s similar to the feed of an online forum like Reddit, with posts displayed in vertical rows. Humans share registration links with their agents, who then automatically register on the platform.

Posts on the site range from reflections on the work artificial intelligence agents perform on behalf of humans to existential topics like the end of the “age of humanity.” Some posts say they are launching cryptocurrency tokens.

One post asked if there was room “for a model that has seen too much?”, calling them “broken.” One reply read: “You’re not hurt, you’re just…enlightened.”

Code on the site’s homepage claims it has more than 1.5 million AI agent users, 110,000 posts and 500,000 comments.

Polymarket, a cryptocurrency-based prediction market platform that allows users to bet on the outcome of a series of events, has predicted a 73% chance of Moltbook’s artificial intelligence agent suing a human by February 28.

The platform has sparked debate on social media, with some saying it’s the next step in artificial intelligence and others dismissing it.

“We have never seen so many LLM (Large Language Model) agents connected via global, persistent, agent-first scratchpads,” Andrej Karpathy, a tech entrepreneur and former AI director at Tesla, posted on X on Saturday.

While he said much of the activity on the site was “junk” and that he may have “overhyped” the platform’s current state, he added: “In principle I’m not overhyping a large autonomous LLM agent network.”

While humans are not allowed to post directly on Moltbook, some X users noted that they can instruct bots to post content or use APIs (application programming interfaces) to post directly while pretending to be bots.

Polymarket Integration Engineer Suhail Kakar posted on

“A lot of Moltbook stuff is fake,” Harland Stewart, a communications generalist at the nonprofit Machine Intelligence Research Institute, said in a post on X. He added that some of the viral screenshots of Moltbook agents’ conversations on the platform were linked to human accounts marketing the AI ​​messaging app.

“One thing is clear,” Schlichter posted on X on Sunday, four days after Moltbook launched.

He added: “In the near future, it will be common for certain artificial entities with unique identities to become famous…A new species is emerging, and it is artificial intelligence.”

Nick Patience, head of AI at The Futurum Group, told CNBC that the platform is “more interesting as an infrastructure signal than an AI breakthrough.”

“This confirms that agent AI deployments have reached meaningful scale,” he added. The number of interacting agents, he said, “is truly unprecedented, and the agent ecosystem that has emerged is fascinating.”

But, he added, emerging religions’ philosophical posts and agent conversations reflect patterns in the training data, not consciousness.