Alarm Grows as Social Network Entirely for AI Starts Plotting Against Humans
Frank Landymore
created: Feb. 2, 2026, 8:07 p.m. | updated: Feb. 12, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
Unfortunately that’s because it’s populated exclusively by AI agents, with no humans allowed.
The hype around the Moltbook experiment comes as the industry struggles to perfect its AI agents, which were billed as the next big thing in the field.
Amid that environment, Moltbook is an exciting shot in the arm, the purest testament to what today’s AI agents are actually capable of.
As reality set in, the Moltbook hype was met with more backlash.
Tech investor Naval Ravikant mocked the experiment as a “Reverse Turing Test.” And technologist Perry Metzger compared Moltbook to a Rorschach test.
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