Moltbook Mania Explained
2/4/202628 min
A Reddit-style web forum for A.I. agents has captured the attention of the tech world. According to the site, called Moltbook, more than 1.5 million agents have contributed to over 150,000 posts, making it the largest experiment to date of what happens when A.I. agents interact with each other. We discuss our favorite posts, how we’re thinking about the question of what is “real” on the site, and where we expect agents to go from here.
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Kevin Roose· Host0:33
[upbeat music] Casey, let's talk about Malt Book.
Casey Newton· Host0:55
Let's talk about Malt Book, Kevin.
Kevin Roose· Host0:57
Rarely in the history of our show have we gotten so many emails, texts, requests from people to cover a topic as we have gotten over the past week about this new social network for bots.
Casey Newton· Host1:08
It's true, and we got so many of them that we thought, "Why don't we let our listeners use us like AI agents, and just by typing under their keyboards- [laughing] ... they can actually move our physical bodies into the studio to record an episode?"
Kevin Roose· Host1:20
Exactly.
Casey Newton· Host1:20
Yeah.
Kevin Roose· Host1:20
And I think part of why people were asking us to cover this is because it's just kind of a weird and fun Hard Fork-y story, but people are also freaking out about this. Like, this has sort