Over the weekend, a new social network called Moltbook—modeled after Reddit, and designed to be used by AI agents—exploded in popularity, prompting hype and panic online. In the span of a few days, ...
On Moltbook, bots have formed communities, invented their own inside jokes, cultural references and even formed a parody religion. Or have they? Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is ...
In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...
What happens when thousands of AI agents get together online and talk like humans do? That's what a new social network called Moltbook, designed just for AI bots and not people, aims to find out.And ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Last Wednesday, Matt Schlicht, a technologist living in a small town just south of Los Angeles, launched a new social network called Moltbook. Like Facebook or Reddit, Moltbook was ...
Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...