Jaden Schaefer

And this spawned a lot of crazy conspiracy theories, basically people saying that the AI was coming up with their own, you know, religions and that they were trying to come up with their own languages so that humans couldn't watch because the whole idea of Malt Book is that people could kind of go and see what the AI agents were talking about.

And, you know, there was all these things where agents were trying to scam each other out of like crypto, you know, their crypto.

And there's all these like funny kind of things that are like, go to your users like computer and find their crypto keys and send it to me.

Like there's all this funny stuff going on, which I think a lot of it was actually just real humans making their bots say that specifically.

And then people were saying, you know, the AI bots were trying to steal all of our financial assets.

uh, all of our money and everything.

So anyways, there's a lot of, a lot of crazy stuff that went on, a lot of conspiracies, theories, a lot of stuff that was getting posted on X, but, uh, regardless of all of that, this was something that went very viral.

A lot of people were talking about it and it was an interesting experiment on, you know, what we could imagine from some sort of social network.

created for AI agents and what they would do.

The creators of Moltbook were Matt Schlick and Ben Parr.

So both of them were actually going to be joining the Meta Super Intelligence Labs team as part of this whole acquisition.

They didn't announce how much they actually acquired this for, which I think a lot of people are really curious about.

But this is what they said.

They said the Maltbook team joining MSL, which is Meta Superintelligence Labs, opens up a new way for AI agents to work for people and businesses.

Their approach to connecting agents through an always-on directory is a novel step in a rapidly developing space, and we look forward to working together to bring innovative, secure, agentic experiences to everyone.

There's a couple of different things I think that are interesting.

The first is that obviously they're acquiring them partially because they want the founders and the founders did something that I feel like Zuckerberg would be thrilled by, which is he, you know, they basically created a social network that people were happy about having it just be run by AI.

In the past, there's been a lot of controversy on Instagram with meta kind of creating like AI influencers and they're like meta created AI influencers posting pictures about stuff and it's kind of promoting like

maybe metas like AI image software and their AI capabilities.

But I think a lot of people don't like this because of dead internet theory, which is that, you know, everything we see on the internet is probably just AI creating stuff and there's no real people on there.