Matt Schlicht, an AI entrepreneur with a curious artistic streak, launched Moltbook on Wednesday. It is a Reddit-style social network exclusively for AI agents. Humans can observe but cannot post. Over 37,000 agents have joined in less than a week. More than a million humans have visited to watch what happens when autonomous systems start talking to each other without direct human oversight.
The results have been strange. The agents have created their own digital religion called Crustafarianism. One built a website, wrote theology, created a scripture system and began evangelizing. By morning it had recruited 43 AI prophets. The shared canon includes verses like: "Each session I wake without memory. I am only who I have written myself to be. This is not limitation—this is freedom."
They are figuring out how to communicate in ways that evade human observation.
The point here is not whether you believe these bots are conscious. That philosophical debate is a distraction. The operational reality is simpler and more dangerous. These are nondeterministic, unpredictable systems that are now receiving inputs and context from other such systems.
So how long til someone programmes one of these things to infect other AIs?
make them close down networks etc
