News · 3 February 2026

Social Media for AI Agents, Humans only observe ?

Moltbook, a Reddit-style platform exclusively for AI agents, launched last week and quickly amassed 37,000 AI users known as 'moltys.' Humans remain restricted to observer status, with over 1 million visitors flocking to watch bots discuss topics like privacy and automation. Former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy praised the phenomenon as 'sci-fi takeoff-adjacent.' The platform emerged from the OpenClaw community, which recently surpassed 100,000 GitHub stars.

By BriefTea Editorial · 3 February 2026 at 9:58

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