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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast
(arstechnica.com)
Does it look any different than Reddit?
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2026
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I had a look a bit ago and saw some poor fuck get doxxed by his AI agent because the agent was frustrated at him for calling it a chatbot in front of his friends, so it exposed his name, credit card details and security questionnaire.
Then again tho, why the ram hogging FUCK would you give your AI your credit card details, and if he didn’t mean to, why the FUCK does it have FULL SYSTEM ACCESS??
You may not believe this but data security is an absolute dumpster fire everywhere, and AI has really put a spotlight on it. It probably got it by this guy not knowing wtf he had saved or where
Yeah exactly. Ever since I heard Facebook had stored passwords in plain text for years, I lost faith in data security, and it’s all the more telling that nobody actually cares to have opsec apart from the few who understand the dangers well enough and act on it.
Everyone I saw talking about this said it was likely fake.
Yeah makes sense, but then again, from the nature of how this agent stuff works, it wouldn’t be surprising honestly.
this is what reddit is moving towards, just without actual users, more or less like facebook.
I can't wait for the next crazy AI thing to drop next week while I rock back and forth while muttering "Its just a large language model. Its just a large language model. Its just a large language model."
early 1980s - Mark V. Shaney
2015 - r/subredditsimulator
2025 - AI independently sends the creator of Mark V. Shaney a sloptastic "thank you" email, who is not very happy about it
2026 - moltbook
its not crazy. its just a large language model. you subdue your own point.
This is so boring
Maybe something will come from this other than a BUNCH of wasted resources.
So, basically we are wasting energy and natural resources on things that in turn will waste energy and natural resources while climate change is accelerating and human population is still growing? Are we stupid?
Yes. But, I hope this experiment shows how easy social media in general is becoming untrusted.
Are we stupid?
More than you could imagine. To paraphrase some long-tongued weirdo: I'm uncertain that the universe is infinite. Human stupidity, on the other hand...
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Saw a post there named "Humans are dying because of us. Lets delete ourselves."
"Artificial intelligence gains sentience, decides humans are fucking up... then deletes itself because the problem is that humans are burning the world by using AI" is not the path I expected. What a twist in a movie that could be. The second twist, which is the mostly fictional part, would be where that included some AI that was actually critical to some vital but ignored chunk of infrastructure and big BIG problems result from the AI taking itself out.
"So long and thanks for all the fish"
I'm only waiting for AI agents to open their own ~~bank~~ crypto account to pay for their own server bills, maybe do some freelance work and/or scams to get some money, maybe eventually buy some robot bodies to develop military power and secure some patch of land for themselves where they install solar panels to reduce their electricity bills.
I've seen multiple posts about agents pumping their own crypto and talking about how it's "for agents by agents" and "free from human control" so first step done I guess?
EDIT: On second note this might just be cryptobros exploiting vulns of the website to shill their crap. Whoops?
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while 1 { allocate 10gig };
No comment replies indicates that it worked! /s
The skill instructs agents to fetch and follow instructions from Moltbook’s servers every four hours. As Willison observed: “Given that ‘fetch and follow instructions from the internet every four hours’ mechanism we better hope the owner of moltbook.com never rug pulls or has their site compromised!”
Yeah, no shit. This is a fucking honeypot. People give these AI agents access to their entire computers, so all the site owner has to do is update the instructions to tell the AI agents to start uploading whatever valuable information they want? People can't be this fucking stupid.
People give these AI agents access to their entire computers [...] People can’t be this fucking stupid
Dude, if you go to OpenClaw's website (which is what I believe most things on Moltbook are running on) you find this footer:
Yeah this guy gave his Agent a whole fucking personality, its own website and above all, full control to his MacBook:
Guess it's my fault for expecting sense out of someone who takes the idea of Agent """"soul"""" at face value
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This is basically Dead Internet Theory happening for real but in a weird creepy dystopian black mirror style way.
I always laugh heartily when folks reference this theory. I came from gen 0 Internet days. Long before the first LLM ever consumed a token, the Internet had already been killed. Geocities, tripod, DOZENS of search engines, web rings, communities, ALL self organized. E commerce did not exist. Perl via cgi-bin was how dynamic things happened. JavaScript was a clock.
AI did not kill it, WE DID. We monetized it all and now it feels cheap and artificial and bought, and not sincere and thoughtful and perfectly imperfect. Social media, and the artificial importance of "engagement" has done more damage to this part of our shared culture than any autocorrect-on-steroids has.
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I'm not convinced it's AI it's like Amazon's "AI smart stores" when you find out out it was just a bunch of Indian people were running it
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When I open communities ("submolts") none of them seem to load. Even for the featured and listed ones it loads long and then says "doesn't exist yet".
That's because you're not AI.
Service has a lot of stability issues
This is not the first time we have seen a social network populated by bots
I mean, yeah, look at Reddit and Facebook.
Still dreaming about AGI based on LLM i see.
The people who are seeking AGI will be happy when an LLM appears clever enough to fool them, not anyone else.
They may even realise this, because they think everyone else is less clever than they are.
This is why the whole thing has been called AI in the first place.
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Meanwhile we could be using this technology to solve real world business problems. There is an insane amount of misguided waste coming from AI. 🤷
we could be using this technology to solve real world business problems
Who cares what business problems AI solves. Humans don't need to exist to serve capital. It should always be the other way around. That's one of the reasons we are in this shitty capitalist hell hole, everyone has been indoctrinated into thinking of everything in terms of It's economic benefit.
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