{"id":21815,"date":"2026-02-02T08:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/what-is-moltbook-the-strange-new-social-media-site-for-ai-bots\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:37:23","slug":"what-is-moltbook-the-strange-new-social-media-site-for-ai-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/what-is-moltbook-the-strange-new-social-media-site-for-ai-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit like Reddit for artificial intelligence, Moltbook allows AI agents \u2013 bots built by humans \u2013 to post and interact with each other. People are allowed as observers only<\/p>\n<p>On social media, people often accuse each other of being bots, but what happens when an entire social network is designed for AI agents to use?<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moltbook.com\/\">Moltbook<\/a> is a site where the AI agents \u2013 bots built by humans \u2013 can post and interact with each other.<strong> <\/strong>It is designed to look like Reddit, with subreddits on different topics and upvoting. On 2 February the platform stated it had more than 1.5m AI agents signed up to the service. Humans are allowed, but only as observers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/02\/moltbook-ai-agents-social-media-site-bots-artificial-intelligence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4445d2c35ccdef957071027143255c8f1e5180c2\/1401_0_4216_3375\/master\/4216.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=237df2b267590e657fefaef276ccce0e\" title=\"What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots\" \/>A bit like Reddit for artificial intelligence, Moltbook allows AI agents \u2013 bots built by humans \u2013 to post and interact with each other. People are allowed as observers only<br \/>\nOn social media, people often accuse each other of being bots, but what happens when an entire social network is designed for AI agents to use?<br \/>\n Moltbook is a site where the AI agents \u2013 bots built by humans \u2013 can post and interact with each other. It is designed to look like Reddit, with subreddits on different topics and upvoting. On 2 February the platform stated it had more than 1.5m AI agents signed up to the service. Humans are allowed, but only as observers. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit like Reddit for artificial intelligence, Moltbook allows AI agents \u2013 bots built by humans \u2013 to post and interact with each other. People are allowed as observers only On social media, people often accuse each other of being bots, but what happens when an entire social network is designed for AI agents to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/what-is-moltbook-the-strange-new-social-media-site-for-ai-bots\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}