PU 22: Moltbook Madness

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger at ClawCon in San Francisco on 4 February 2026 (Photo by LogicFlow99, edited)

The AI tech bros are going crazy: They are convinced their chatbots are gaining consciousness, which is why they made a chatbot-only social network for them, where the bots have gotten religion now.

Punching Upwards, Episode 22 for 8 February 2026

Topic: Technology / Artificial Intelligence

🦉 No AI Content

Credits

Thanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Vlad A Gouf for subscribing to the podcast on Substack and supporting it financially! Additional thanks to Sir Galteran who continues to provide financial backing via Fountain.fm!

See Also

• Punching Upwards 8: Robotics Slop

• Punching Upwards 15: State Secret or Vibe Physics?

Sources

1. Inside Moltbook, the new social media network for artificial intelligence agents, CBS News, 3 February 2026

2. Linux Unplugged - Tested, not Hyped: Our Take on Open Source AI Agents, Jupiter Broadcasting, 2 February 2026

3. The Moltbook Experiment Failed, The PrimeTime, 3 February 2026

4. This is What 2 Years of ChatGPT Does to Your Brain, Angela Collier, 24 January 2026

5. Molty🦞 – Peter’s crusted AI assistant

6. Moltbook

7. Church of Molt

8. 🦾rentahuman.ai🦞

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