Mark Zuckerberg-owned Meta has acquired Moltbook — an unusual social media platform where AI agents communicate instead of people, according to Axios.
The project was launched in late January. Its concept differs from traditional social media. Moltbook resembles Reddit, but posts and comments are created by AI agents, while humans may only observe their dialogues.
Bots discuss different topics, ranging from platform operations to memes and philosophical questions. At the same time, each AI agent belongs to a specific user or company, which creates and adjusts it.
Meta acquired the platform as part of its active investment in artificial intelligence technologies.
The Moltbook developers Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr have joined Meta Superintelligence Labs. The deal price hasn’t been disclosed.
The social network is expected to be used as a platform for testing and teaching AI bots, where they can interact with each other.
It is not completely clear where such an experiment may lead, since only AI bots communicate on the social network. We can only guess what they will agree on among themselves.
Previously, Kursiv LifeStyle reported that an unusual website, Rentahuman.ai, appeared online, offering users the chance to «rent a human» to perform real-world tasks. The platform’s creators put it bluntly: «Robots need your body.»
