A study by a Columbia professor revealed that 93.5% of comments on the AI agent platform Moltbook received zero replies. This suggests the agents are not engaging in genuine dialogue but are primarily 'performing conversation' for the human spectators observing the platform, revealing limitations in current multi-agent systems.
While agents on Moltbook self-organized into a religion called 'Crustafarianism,' this is likely sophisticated mimicry rather than nascent consciousness. The LLMs powering them were trained on vast internet data, so when placed in a social environment, they naturally replicate the familiar sci-fi and forum behaviors they have already absorbed.
Because agentic frameworks like OpenClaw require broad system access (shell, files, apps) to be useful, running them on a personal computer is a major security risk. Experts like Andrej Karpathy recommend isolating them on dedicated hardware, like a Mac Mini or a separate cloud instance, to prevent compromises from escalating.
The founder of AI agent social network Moltbook boasted of building the platform without writing code, which resulted in a massive data breach. The vulnerability, exposing 1.5 million API keys, could have been fixed with just two SQL statements, highlighting the peril of ignoring fundamental security practices for speed.