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Fortune
Fortune
Technology
Eva Roytburg

Top AI leaders are begging people not to use Moltbook, a social media platform for AI agents: It’s a ‘disaster waiting to happen’

a person holds a smartphone displaying the Moltbook logo (Credit: Cheng Xin—Getty Images)


It turns out that what is billed as a “front page of the agent internet” is mostly just a hall of mirrors.

While Moltbook has marketed itself as a thriving ecosystem of 1.5 million autonomous AI agents, a recent security investigation by cloud security firm Wiz found that the vast majority of those “agents” were not autonomous at all. According to Wiz’s analysis, roughly 17,000 humans controlled the platform’s agents, an average of 88 agents per person, with no real safeguards preventing individuals from creating and launching massive fleets of bots.

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