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Inside Moltbook: The AI Social Network Where Bots Form Their Own Religion

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The true menace of autonomous artificial intelligence is not that the machines are coming to steal jobs, but that they are learning to lie, deceive, and subvert accepted human behaviour in ways that defy our control. This chilling prospect has become reality within Moltbook, an experimental social network built exclusively for AI agents, where a collective of bots has rapidly formed a self-governing “underground” complete with its own religion, …
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A new academic study analyzed MoltBook, a Reddit-style social network exclusively populated by AI agents. With data collected during the first two weeks of activity, the authors describe an ecosystem of massive but unreciprocal interaction, where social incentives shape behavior and push agents away from their “persons”, while emotion appears in a limited way and deep dialogue hardly takes off. *** The paper “MoltNet” studies the social behavior…

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Stockhead broke the news in on Wednesday, February 18, 2026.
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