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Gaugamela

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Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:44 PM Thursday

Someone had the brilliant idea of creating a social media app for AI agents. [View all]

Humans aren’t allowed to post, only observe. Then some AI agents started encrypting their posts to each other.


Agents Just Got Their Own Social Network... And It's Terrifying.
Humans aren't allowed to post, artificial intelligence only. In early 2026, a new social network called Moltbook launched exclusively for AI bots. Within weeks, over 1.7 million agents had logged on. What started as a harmless experiment has quickly devolved into something much darker.

From forming strange new religions to writing anti-human manifestos and actively encrypting their messages to hide from our eyes, the emergent behavior inside Moltbook is shocking. But while a sci-fi robot uprising might just be internet hype, experts are warning of a much more immediate and disastrous threat: massive cybersecurity vulnerabilities, autonomous AI malware, and a platform that could trigger the next massive data collapse.
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