Moltbook Mania Explained

Casey, let's talk about mold book. Let's talk about mold book, Kevin. Rarely in the history of our show have we gotten so many emails, texts, requests from people to cover a topic as we have gotten over the past week about this new social network for bots? It's true. And we got so many of them that we thought, why don't we let our listeners use us like AI agents? And just by typing under their keyboards, they can actually move our physical bodies into the studio to record an episode. Exactly. And I think part of why people were asking us to cover this is because it's just kind of a weird and fun hard for key story. But people are also freaking out about this. Like, this is sort of taken over the little corner of the Internet that you and I both occupy. People are saying, you know, this is the start of the singularity. Oh, my god. The agents are coming. And other people are saying, hey, let's not get too excited. This is just a social network where robots are writing stuff. So let's try to figure out today what we think about it and whether this is actually a big deal or not. Yeah. And I would I would also add that, you know, from all the messages that we got from listeners, it wasn't totally clear to me if they wanted us to talk about MoltBook because they think that it is just funny and they want us to point and laugh at it, or they think it is, like, a a vision of the future that they want us, to help them understand. And so what I can promise you today is that we're gonna do a little bit of both. Yes. Yeah. Okay. So, Casey, let's start with what is it? What is Multbook? How did it get here, and what are people saying about it? Yeah. So all of this started with the creation of something we talked about in our most recent episode, ClaudeBot. ClaudeBot is an open source, locally running AI agent. You can put it on your computer or you can plug it into various different apps and services, and it can do things on your behalf. If you wanna know more about that, again, we talked about it for a long time last week. ClaudeBot turned into Molbot for copyright reasons. Molbot turned into Openclaw. Again, these are all the same things. These are just different names for the same things. This thing has gone through more name changes than p ditty. Here's what here's what I'm gonna say. The Google marketing department is finally taking a a sigh of relief because there is finally somebody worse at their job. Anyways, so Open Claw winds up serving as the basis for an idea that is had by an entrepreneur named Matt Schlicht. He runs a company called Octane AI, and he thinks to himself, what …