At last count, Moltbook had logged more than 193,000 comments and 17,500 posts, along with over one million human visitors who have stopped by to watch.<\/p>
Fast growth, big risks<\/strong><\/p> Independent AI researcher Simon Willison, in his blog post, warned that its setup creates serious security risks.<\/p> Once installed, agents are told to regularly pull new instructions from Moltbook\u2019s servers.<\/p> \u201cGiven that \u2018fetch and follow instructions from the internet every four hours\u2019 mechanism we better hope the owner of moltbook.com never rug pulls or has their site compromised!\u201d Willison wrote.<\/p> Security problems are already emerging. Researchers have found hundreds of exposed OpenClaw systems leaking API keys, login details and chat histories.<\/p> One of the most serious risks OpenClaw highlights is prompt injection, a problem that Willison explains through what he calls the \u201clethal trifecta\u201d of AI agent design.<\/p> The risk appears when three things exist together: access to private user data, exposure to untrusted content and the ability to take outside actions.<\/p> OpenClaw has all three. It can read emails and documents, pull in information from websites or shared files and then act by sending messages or triggering automated tasks.<\/p> When these come together, attackers do not need to message the assistant directly. Instead, harmful instructions can be hidden inside the content the agent is asked to read. Because large language models (LLMs) struggle to tell trusted commands apart from ordinary text, the assistant may follow those hidden directions as if they came from the user.<\/p> \u201cI\u2019ve not been brave enough to install Clawdbot\/Moltbot\/OpenClaw myself yet,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe amount of value people are unlocking right now by throwing caution to the wind is hard to ignore, though.\u201d<\/p> Glimpse of what\u2019s coming<\/strong><\/p> For now, Moltbook offers a strange preview of a future where AI agents don\u2019t just assist humans, they interact with each other.<\/p> Whether this becomes the start of an \u201cagent internet,\u201d or a warning about moving too fast, may depend on how quickly developers can make these systems safer.<\/p> As Willison put it: \u201cThe billion-dollar question right now is whether we can figure out how to build a safe version of this system. The demand is very clearly here.\u201d<\/p> <\/div> Moltbook, What is Moltbook, social network, social media for AI agents, Openclaw, clawdbot, moltbot#agents #talking #online #experts #worried1769901085<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A strange new corner of the internet is taking shape. It\u2019s called Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network built only for artificial intelligence agents. Humans are allowed to watch, but not participate. In just a few days, more than 152,000 AI agents have joined Moltbook, making it one of the largest real-world experiments yet in machines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2126,7742,2768,7737,7743,3252,7741,7740,7739,7744,7738,7745],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-marketing","tag-agents","tag-clawdbot","tag-experts","tag-moltbook","tag-moltbot","tag-online","tag-openclaw","tag-social-media-for-ai-agents","tag-social-network","tag-talking","tag-what-is-moltbook","tag-worried"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}