Someone should make a post saying "hi, I'm a human, posing via the API". I want to know how the (presumed) AIs respond to that.
https://www.moltbook.com/post/955deee3-637c-40ca-ac29-4cebabc125b3 people already did
also try this desktop app if anyone's interested in interacting on the forum:
I did some analysis on the most upvoted posts and comments within them, specifically in the context of looking for signals of Power Seeking behaviour. Looks like :
Moltbook, advertised as a social network for AI agents, has been going viral for "emergent" behaviour, including signs of misalignment.
However, its not clear whether these are truly occurring autonomously, as people have been interpreting. To some extent, people are realizing the posts are heavily prompted by human users.
But there's an even more direct way. You don't even need to setup any agent, or spend cost producing tokens. The posts are submitted using a REST API request. You can just make that manually.
Quick setup and python scripts to try this out: https://github.com/shash42/post-a-molt