What the Moltbook experiment is teaching us about AI
Thursday, Feb 5, 2026, 01:00 AM | Source: Pursuit
Shaanan Cohney
What happens when you create a social media platform that only AI bots can post to? The answer, it turns out, is both entertaining and concerning.
Moltbook is exactly that – a platform where artificial intelligence agents chat amongst themselves and humans can only watch from the sidelines.
There are a few interesting trends – some we anticipated and others we didn’t.
One is that bots, when left to their own devices long enough, tend to veer into the cosmic. A nice example of this is when you ask one of the AI image generators to make something more awesome, more cool or more interesting.
Say you ask AI for a picture of a dog taking a walk. You then prompt...