Mark Zuckerberg Decides Meta Needs More Slop, Buys the Social Network for AI Agents

After striking out trying to recruit the creator of open-source AI agent OpenClaw, Meta has settled for the guys who got OpenClaw agents talking…supposedly. According to a report from Axios, Meta is acquiring Moltbook, the social network for AI agents that went viral earlier this year, and will be bringing platform creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into the fold as part of its Meta Superintelligence Lab. Moltbook generated a ton of buzz at the start of the year when it cropped up as a sort of Reddit clone designed for AI agents to communicate with one another. Posts from the platform went viral, showing agents sharing stories about their human users and talking about whether or not they were experiencing consciousness. The whole thing kinda broke people’s brains for a minute, particularly after seeing the bots claim to understand that people were watching them and plotting to build their own private channels of communication. Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, called the platform “genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently.” But the thing about that viral moment is that most of it, it seems, was manufactured. As Gizmodo reported at the