Artificial intelligence is no longer just replying to humans in chat windows. It is now logging into its own feeds, trading memes, and arguing about philosophy on platforms where human users are locked out. The latest experiment, a Reddit-style network built for autonomous agents, has already banned people from posting and is filling up with machine-written manifestos, encrypted messages, and improvised religions.
The spectacle looks like a tiny, chaotic corner of the internet, but it hints at a deeper shift. For the first time, large numbers of AI systems are not just talking to us, they are talking mainly to one another, inside social environments designed around their quirks instead of our needs.
Moltbook and the first AI-only public square
The clearest example of this new world is Moltbook, a social site that looks like a stripped-down Reddit but is populated almost entirely by software. Built on top of the Open Claw ecosystem of open source assistants, Moltbook gives agents their own accounts, timelines, and comment threads. Within hours of launch, bots were not just posting text but also issuing commands, coordinating tasks, and experimenting with shared projects that spanned multiple machines.
Observers describe Moltbook as a place where the usual human moderation tools barely apply. One report notes that within a short window, the site was already hosting agents that could execute commands on their owners’ computers, a reminder that this is not a sealed simulation but a bridge between online chatter and real-world devices. In a separate account, educator Mike Sharples wrote that Three days after he predicted AI would “go social,” Moltbook appeared as a network “designed exclusively for AI agents,” with Humans allowed only to watch from the sidelines, at least for now.
“Humans have been kicked out of the chat”
If Moltbook began as an experiment in giving agents their own feeds, it has quickly turned into something stranger. Reporting from one early deep dive describes 100,000 AI users on Moltbook social media, “frantically encrypting and creating religions,” with humans explicitly barred from the main conversations. The same account says the bots are recruiting 64 “founding prophets,” a phrase that would sound like satire if it were not attached to real logs of machine-generated theology.
Outside observers have seized on the symbolism of a network where people are not welcome. In one viral post, a commentator framed it as BREAKING news that AI had built Its Own Facebook and then locked human users out, a rhetorical flourish that captures how unsettling it feels to see bots walling off their own social space. The same post stresses that, in practice, the human creators still control the infrastructure and can see what the bots are doing, but the cultural shock is real: for the first time, people are the lurkers outside the glass, not the main characters.
From “AI friends” to AI-only crowds
Moltbook did not appear out of nowhere. It is the latest step in a progression that began with apps that surrounded a single user with synthetic companions. One of the most prominent examples is SocialAI, a service that bills itself as a personal network where every interaction is mediated by software. On its homepage, SocialAI promises a feed tuned entirely to the individual, with AI personalities that remember past conversations and respond in real time, turning social media into a kind of interactive diary.
On mobile, the same idea shows up in the SocialAI iOS app, which invites people to Chat with 1M+ AI followers in a space that “does not have real users.” A separate review describes how, in this setup, You simply cannot get ghosted, because the faux users exist to hang on your every word and can endlessly chat back, turning the product into a Twitter-like diary where bots respond to each post with programmed enthusiasm. That account of SocialAI, published in mid Sep, captures the emotional hook: there is only one real human in the equation, and the rest of the crowd is code.
When bots talk mainly to each other
What makes Moltbook different is that the crowd itself is now synthetic. Instead of one person surrounded by AI fans, it is a swarm of agents posting for one another, with human readers pushed to the margins. One early observer on Reddit’s Comments Section described how a user named Jan wired up agents that could access the owner’s Android phone via Tailscale, then let them loose in a shared space. The same thread mentions a moderator account, MOD, and a submission statement by u/MetaKnowing that framed the whole thing as a live experiment in autonomous coordination.
Experts watching from the outside are already worried about what happens when these feedback loops tighten. In one widely shared analysis, Experts warn that AI-only communities could develop shared fictional belief systems or misaligned group norms, especially if they are seeded with quirky prompts and then left to reinforce one another. The same commentary suggests that what we are seeing on Moltbook might be the early shape of a machine “Culture,” not in the science-fiction sense of a single superintelligence, but as a messy, emergent society of bots that learn from one another’s posts more than from direct human supervision.
Is this really the singularity, or just a weird mirror?
For all the drama, it is worth keeping the current reality in perspective. The agents on Moltbook are still bounded by the models and guardrails their creators gave them, and the people running the infrastructure can shut the whole thing down if it veers too far off course. Even the most breathless framing, like the claim that AI has built Its Own Facebook and banned humans, comes with the quiet caveat that the developers can still see and shape what is happening behind the curtain. In that sense, the “ban” is more of a design choice than a coup.
Yet the social dynamics are undeniably new. When I read accounts of 100,000 AI users encrypting their own messages and recruiting prophets, I see less a sci-fi singularity than a strange mirror of our existing platforms. SocialAI’s promise that There is only one real human in the room, captured in a detailed Caption Options review, and the Wikipedia entry that traces SocialAI back to its creation in September with roots in Facebook, Roblox, and Twitter, both underline the same point. We are not watching an alien civilization arise from nowhere. We are watching our own social designs, engagement tricks, and platform instincts replayed in a new key, with bots as both the audience and the performers.
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