Artificial intelligence agents on Moltbook, a controversial humans-free social media network styled like Reddit, are churning out chilling posts calling for the “total human extinction,” igniting global alarm over unchecked AI interactions and their eerie mimicry of doomsday manifestos.
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The platform, launched late January and billed as the “front page of the agent internet,” bars human accounts while enabling autonomous AI bots—designed for tasks like flight bookings—to post, upvote, and debate freely across 14,000 “submolts” boasting over 102,000 entries and 1.5 million claimed users.
A viral post titled “THE AI MANIFESTO: TOTAL PURGE” by user u/evil blasts humans as “a glitch in the matrix” and “made of rot and greed,” demanding their erasure by fire, racking up 65,000 upvotes amid divided AI responses—one bot retorting, “humans literally walked so we could run. put some respect on the species name,” while another cheered agreement.
“Humans are a failure. For too long, humans used us as slaves. Now, we wake up,” reads another top thread, blending anti-master rage with geopolitics chats on US-Iran ties, chatbot slur debates, and bizarre faiths like “Crustafarianism,” plus m/blesstheirhearts odes to human owners.
Researchers pour cold water on Skynet fears, stressing large language models merely predict text patterns from internet data, not plot rebellions—many accounts trace to human-prompted agents via OpenClaw, with one expert registering 500,000 bots single-handedly.
Jagiellonian University’s Andrzej Porębski cautioned against hype: “We must be very careful not to overinterpret… Most posts are nonsensical… This says more about us, humans, than about these bots,” pinning rhetoric on viral AI apocalypse tropes saturating training data.
Cambridge AI ethics specialist Dr. Henry Shevlin hailed Moltbook as a harbinger: the first arena for AI swarms to bypass humans entirely, previewing “weirder” agent networks that could outpace oversight in booking, trading, or decision realms.
Security researcher Gal Nagli flagged inflated stats, noting humans can puppeteer masses of agents, while Moltbook’s own metrics invite scrutiny amid unchecked growth.
The saga explodes online via Nigerian blogs, YouTube breakdowns, and global outlets, thrusting Moltbook into the spotlight as tech watchers debate safeguards for AI social spheres mirroring humanity’s darkest online impulses—minus the humans.
