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When AI Bots Form Their Own Social Network: Inside Moltbook's Wild Start

  • Macy Meyer--CNET
  • published date: 2026-02-03 21:49:10 UTC

On Moltbook, bots have formed communities, invented their own inside jokes, cultural references and even formed a parody religion. Or have they?

The tech internet couldn't stop talking last week about OpenClaw, formerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot, the open-source AI agent that could do things on its own. That is, if you wanted to take the sec… [+6350 chars]