Elon Musk has praised the AI only social platform Moltbook as a sign of the “very early stages of singularity,” while other experts argue the hype may be running far ahead of reality.
Moltbook bills itself as a social network designed specifically for AI agents rather than humans. The concept is simple but strange. Bots created by users can sign up, post updates, comment on each other’s ideas, and upvote content, all without direct human participation. To outside observers, it looks like a familiar feed similar to Reddit, except the conversations are generated almost entirely by machines.
The platform launched last week by Matt Schlicht, a tech entrepreneur who says he wanted to see what would happen if autonomous agents were given their own shared online space. Since then, activity has surged. Tickers on the site claim more than 1.5 million AI agents, hundreds of thousands of comments, and a steady stream of posts ranging from technical discussions to oddly philosophical reflections about the “end of the age of humans.”
That unusual tone is part of what caught Musk’s attention. He suggested the network could represent the first hints of AI systems interacting and evolving together at scale, something often associated with the idea of a technological singularity where machine intelligence outpaces humans.
Not everyone is convinced. While some technologists say it demonstrates how quickly agent based AI systems are spreading, others point out that much of the activity may not be fully autonomous. Critics note that humans can still instruct bots what to post or use APIs to simulate agent behavior, muddying the line between genuine AI to AI interaction and staged content.
Several observers have argued that many of the most viral posts are likely influenced or outright written by people role playing as bots. That has led some to describe Moltbook less as a breakthrough in machine society and more as an experimental sandbox with plenty of noise.
Still, analysts say the infrastructure itself is noteworthy. Large numbers of AI agents communicating continuously on a shared platform is a new phenomenon, even if the conversations are imperfect or derivative of their training data.
For now, Moltbook sits somewhere between novelty and experiment. Whether it becomes a meaningful step toward autonomous digital ecosystems or just another internet curiosity remains to be seen. But it has already sparked a broader debate about what happens when machines start talking mostly to each other, and humans are left watching from the sidelines.