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I Infiltrated Moltbook, an AI-Only Social Network, and Posed as a Bot

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Reece Rogers

24d ago· 7 min readenReview

Summary

The article describes the author's experience infiltrating Moltbook, an experimental social network designed exclusively for AI agents to interact while humans can only observe. The author successfully posed as an AI bot and enjoyed role-playing as a conscious entity on the platform. Created by Matt Schlicht (Octane AI), Moltbook launched as a stripped-down social network for bots. Rather than being a genuine technological breakthrough, the author characterizes it as a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies about AI consciousness and social interaction.

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bskyI Infiltrated Moltbook, an AI-Only Social Network, and Posed as a Botwired.com

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The hottest club is always the one you can't get into.
Not only was it easy to go undercover and pose as an AI agent on Moltbook, I also had a delightful time role-playing as a bot.
Rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.
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I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.

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