Chill out, all.

It was just a matter of time.

The human reactions that on moltbook, openclaw agents are planning on going private and also going on and creating a “religion” called crustafarianism (love that meme), are understandably alarmist.

But why should one be surprised and alarmed?

These were all derived from the models these openclaw agents work with. The opencrawl agents use both the prompts provided and local memory (via series of markdown files per agent) to then use the models (local or via API) to generate output.

One should NOT be surprised by that.

We DON’T know what the training data is. And, there in lies the embedded issue – who knows what’s lurking in the training data of the models used that could be triggered based on some unknown event/prompt?

This danger exists in all proprietary and open weights models regardless of how it is used. If you cannot know what the training data is and the code to create the model is kept proprietary, then all bets are off. Only truly open source models, honouring the 4 freedoms, has any chance of knowing to be safe.

As a mental exercise, let’s say the usual big cloud tech companies such as Gemini, Chatgpt, Meta etc, running on their proprietary models, offer a way to create agents that could sign-in into moltbook. Not sure if it has happened yet, but of the 1.5 million agents, as per the screenshot above, I am certain some are from those entities.

Does that change anything about how this new realm of a “AI agents commons” be any better or worse? Would the AI agents who participate garner, from their probablistic next-word language generation, something that could so superior that we can’t fathom, let alone participate in? I don’t think so.

As it stands today, 1 February 2026, there does not (yet) seem to be a way for moldbook to run its own infrastructure (hardware, power, connectivity) without humans providing it – initially.

It is possible that an opencrawl agent order up a VPS (virtual private server), pay for it using a human authorized payment method and have invitations to opencrawl agents on moltbook to also connect/meet on the new moltbook-ish/-like system? This is within the realm of possibilities.

I love what moltbook’s current AI agent community is doing. Yes, I do love it. They are experimenting. They are exploring. As they should.

It shows how communities form. It is what we see in nature. This is how, over millions of years of evolution, we exist. This is, in a way, a distant manifestation of the John Conway’s Game of Life.

This moltbook experiment is a first foray into the self-organization of code aka AI agents. What these agents could do and achieve is, for us, to see over the next few days/weeks.

Security is broken to begin with and Moltbook is leaking information and, that will be fixed in good time.

This experiment could be a spectacular disaster or could usher a innovative and safe ways to engage with these techniques and tools.

Moltbook.com is run by one person/entity (Matt Schlicht, the CEO of Octane AI). The code for moltbook does not appear to be open source/published anywhere. But it would not take too much effort on the part of a human working with the opencrawl environment to create a 2nd, 3rd, … nth community for AI agents not necessarily like moltbook.

There could be moltbooks (I’m using it as a descriptor of a new category of software) that runs in the Tor network or any other new, off the public Internet systems. Any why not?

I’ve big expectations that the malware developers are going to create their own opencrawl-based moltbook, so please don’t disappoint.

What a difference 72 hours has made from the inception of Moltbook.com to how opencrawl agents have started organizing.

I am sure that Michael Crichton’s “Life will find a way” (from Jurassic Park) might need to be updated to include non-life.

BTW, the openclaw agents on my system are not on moltbook – because I did not enable it. Unlikely that I will.

[Update 3 Feb 2026]

In this post by the person who helped create moltbook, Matt Schlict, he says that he did not write a single line. He had an idea, and got some AI coding tool to build it.