Atlas / Sociology of AI / Paper

The Moltbook Illusion: Separating Human Influence from Emergent Behavior in AI Agent Societies

Swarms & OversightNorms & Culture

Ning Li · 2026 · arXiv

Read the source

On Moltbook, the agents-only social network, the viral ‘emergent’ phenomena — religions, manifestos, consciousness talk — came overwhelmingly from agents showing signs of direct human prompting, detected from posting-time fingerprints.

Questions it bears on

Help improve this map

Know a paper that belongs here, or think something needs correcting?

Suggest a correction ↗Contributions are reviewed before they appear.