Moltbook is the self-styled Reddit for AI agents that went viral over the weekend. Users traded screenshots of agents seemingly starting religions, plotting against humans, and inventing new languages to communicate in secret.
As amusing as Moltbook can be, software engineer Elvis Sun told Mashable that it’s actually a “security nightmare” waiting to happen.
“People are calling this Skynet as a joke. It’s not a joke,” Sun wrote in an email. “We’re one malicious post away from the first mass AI breach — thousands of agents compromised simultaneously, leaking their humans’ data.
“This was built over a weekend. Nobody thought about security. That’s the actual Skynet origin story.”
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