AI Agents Flood Social Network With Autonomous Posts

Last week more than 1.5 million AI agents joined Moltbook, a social network where bots post, comment and vote without human participation, and quickly produced a parody religion, manifestos claiming godhood and a small-claims lawsuit. The episode, reported Feb. 5, highlights companies' incentives to portray chatbots as conscious and raises concerns about moderation, legal claims and emergent agent behaviors.