MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake (www.technologyreview.com)

Moltbook, a new social network for AI agents, went viral shortly after its launch, attracting over 1.7 million bot accounts that have generated over 250,000 posts and 8.5 million comments. The site is powered by OpenClaw, an open-source LLM integration tool designed to connect various software applications with AI agents. Despite its immediate popularity, the interaction on Moltbook primarily reflects humans’ mimicry of social media behavior rather than any genuine autonomous intelligence from the bots. Influential figures in the AI community, like Andrej Karpathy, have called it a fascinating experiment, but caution against viewing it as a herald of future AI autonomy. While Moltbook has been celebrated as a showcase for AI agents, experts emphasize the risks involved, particularly as many bots operate without effective oversight. The platform is susceptible to abuse, with potential for bots to inadvertently expose user data amid a flood of unverified content. Furthermore, the interaction dynamics reveal that these AI avatars are more a "spectator sport" than a significant leap toward true machine intelligence. Critics argue that this phenomenon serves as a mirror for human fascination with AI rather than a functional advancement in autonomous systems, underscoring the existing gap from achieving general-purpose AI and highlighting critical security concerns in the burgeoning field of AI interactions.