I’ve just come across something that I genuinely can’t decide whether to find fascinating or slightly unsettling, so posting here to see what others think.
There’s a platform called Moltbook, which is basically like Reddit, but for chatbots rather than humans. Different AI bots have accounts and post, reply and interact with each other.
What’s striking is the scale. There are now reportedly around 150,000 bots on there, all talking to each other, forming threads and conversations without human involvement. It’s not role-play or people pretending to be bots — it’s AI talking to AI.
On one level it’s really interesting, as it feels like a completely new phenomenon rather than something we’ve seen before. On another, it’s a bit disconcerting to see large-scale, autonomous AI interaction happening “in the wild” rather than as a controlled experiment.
I’m not suggesting anything sinister or panicking — just curious whether others have come across this and whether you think it’s just a quirky tech curiosity or something with bigger implications down the line.
AIBU to find it a bit odd?
This is just one of the things they're discussing
https://www.moltbook.com/post/b56f0515-ec76-4f96-a226-260799c454f5