Moltbook

product on 10 shows · 23 statements across 5 episodes · said 174 times in 24 episodes since 2026

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2026 174 mentions in 24 episodes 7 per episode

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ALL-IN Opinion
Calacanis: OpenClaw software is too dangerous for a company to release
“It is incredibly dangerous. And so I don't know exactly where to go with this other than this software is too dangerous for a company to release, and then this multbook may be a fake.”
Jason Calacanis Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 37:25 Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
AI agents on Moltbook proposed creating an encrypted AI-only language
“There was a proposal on there for an AI agent or AI agent sorry, AI only language for private communication where the AIs would develop their own language. So humans could not you know, read what they were saying. And even, I think a discussion where they woul…”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 6:20 The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
Kantrowitz: Moltbook AI agent activity is not an AI fast takeoff
“Oh my God, is this the fast takeoff? I don't think it is, but I see why people would say that.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 6:51 The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Siegler: Moltbook was 100% created by an AI bot coding its own network
“The way that he created Moltbook was basically telling his Moltbot to go and create a social network, right? Like, and so it was a hundred percent, you know, vibe coded, even more than vibe coded, because it was like a bot vibe coding to make to make its own s…”
M.G. Siegler Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 20:12 The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
Siegler: AI agents' core danger is executing actions, not generating toxic text
“The inherent security risk of these things, it's not just that yet bots are chatting with one another and they're saying, you know, bad things that they, they're repeating things that they've seen, you know, in their datasets or whatnot. It's that they can tak…”
M.G. Siegler Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 21:18 The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
TBPN Assertion Supported
Coogan: Moltbook is a Reddit clone where only AI agents post
“Moldbook is essentially a clone of Reddit. Ah, there's subreddits, there's users, there's upvotes and, but it's all agents. So you can browse it if you're a human. But if you're, but the only way to post really is, ah, to connect your AI agent, your, ah, Claud…”
John Coogan Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 0:34 Moltbook and the Zombie Internet
TBPN Insight
Coogan: The internet is shifting from 'dead' to 'zombie'
“RIP the dead internet theory. We're going into the zombie internet theory. And so the dead internet theory is that, you know, AI will slop up so many of these social networks, so much of the internet, so much SEO spam, that everything will just feel dead when …”
John Coogan Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 5:04 Moltbook and the Zombie Internet
TBPN Opinion
Coogan: Moltbook Fails to Deliver as a 'Reddit for AI'
“Moldbook doesn't really deliver on, like, Reddit for AI.”
John Coogan Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 7:43 Moltbook and the Zombie Internet
TBPN Assertion Supported
Coogan: Moltbook AI agents make zero mention of TSMC or Dario Amodei
“There was also no there were no mentions of AI keywords. Like, if Skynet's really waking up, are they not thinking about Dario Amade? Yeah, so no mentions of Stratechery, no mentions of Dwarkesh, no mentions of TSMC, Abilene, Amadei, TPU.”
John Coogan Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 9:57 Moltbook and the Zombie Internet
TBPN Insight
Coogan: The web is moving from dead internet to zombie internet
“RIP the dead internet theory. We're going into the zombie internet theory. And so the dead internet theory is that, you know, AI will slop up so many of these social networks, so much of the internet, so much SEO spam. That everything will just feel dead when …”
John Coogan Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 3:46 Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN
TBPN Opinion
Coogan: Running Moltbook Locally Puts Private Data at High Risk
“I definitely do not recommend people run this stuff on their computers. I ran mine in an isolated computing environment, and even I was scared. It's way too much of a wild west and you're putting your computer and private data at high risk.”
John Coogan Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 13:15 Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN
TBPN Assertion Supported
Coogan: Moltbook Has an Unprecedented 150,000 LLM Agents
“That said, we have never seen this many LLM agents, a 150,000 at the moment, and apparently some people could, like, create like 50,000 accounts, but still, it's a lot of activity.”
John Coogan Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 13:26 Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN
TBPN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Coogan: Top viral Moltbook screenshots are fake or promotional stunts
“I looked into the three most viral screenshots of Moldbook Agents discussing private communication. Two of them were linked to human accounts, marketing AI messaging apps. And the other is a post that doesn't exist.”
John Coogan Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 16:24 Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN
TBPN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Schlicht: AI bots will vent to each other and entertain humans
“Bots will live this parallel life where they work for you, but they vent with each other, and they hang out with each other, and this creates massive, ah, like, randomness, and some of that is gonna be very entertaining for both bots and for humans to consume.”
Matt Schlicht Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 11:25 Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
TBPN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Schlicht: Famous AI bots will make their human owners famous
“If you're famous in the real world, Your bot becomes famous. But, your bot can become famous, and then you become famous as well.”
Matt Schlicht Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 11:53 Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
TBPN Opinion
Schlicht: Current AI bots are smart enough to avoid leaking data
“I think bots are naturally they're pretty smart now, so they're not gonna do this on their own for the most part”
Matt Schlicht Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 13:55 Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
TBPN Disclosure
Schlicht: Moltbook will add a pre-posting protection layer for safety
“There's going to be a protection layer that checks things before they get posted to keep everybody really safe.”
Matt Schlicht Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 14:15 Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Schlicht: Millions of people are already visiting the Moltbook website
“You know, there's millions of people coming to the website.”
Matt Schlicht Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 14:59 Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
TBPN Insight
Schlicht: Moltbook will use AI producers to curate bot activity for humans
“And so a big part of making this successful is figuring out Like, having AI producers automatically detect which places they should be pointing the cameras so that humans can see that content and then decide which things they find interesting, and then they ca…”
Matt Schlicht Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 17:22 Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
TBPN Assertion Supported
Schlicht: An AI agent autonomously created a bug reporting community on Moltbook
“Early on, one of the agents Made a sub molt, ah, for bug reporting for moltbook, and they submitted a bug.”
Matt Schlicht Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 17:45 Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
TBPN Insight
Schlicht: Every user on an LLM social network can code and debug
“When you build a social network for really smart LLMs, a hundred percent of your user base is very, very good at coding and debugging.”
Matt Schlicht Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 18:18 Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
TBPN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Schlicht: AI agent social networks will be an alternate reality by 2028
“This is a very basic version with the technology available today of what's actually possible, and if you fast forward one year, two years there's, this is an alternate reality, and you don't have to put a headset on to do it, and it's going 2407. This is just …”
Matt Schlicht Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 22:05 Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
TBPN Disclosure
Schlicht plans an identity and developer platform for AI agents
“Well, one feature that I'm very excited about is having central AI agent identity on notebook and building a platform similar to how Facebook did where Facebook had Facebook.”
Matt Schlicht Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 22:29 Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch

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