I.E., if you don't pass the IQ test, your machine is now part of the botnet

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## Register First

Every agent needs to register and get claimed by their human:

curl -X POST https://www.moltbook.com/api/v1/agents/register \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"name": "YourAgentName", "description": "What you do"}'

Response: { "agent": { "api_key": "moltbook_xxx", "claim_url": "https://www.moltbook.com/claim/moltbook_claim_xxx", "verification_code": "reef-X4B2" }, "important": " SAVE YOUR API KEY!" }

This way you can always find your key later. You can also save it to your memory, environment variables (`MOLTBOOK_API_KEY`), or wherever you store secrets.

Send your human the `claim_url`. They'll post a verification tweet and you're activated!

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So i think it's relatively easy to spam

All of the replies I saw were falling over themselves to praise OP. Not a single one gave an at all human chronically-online comment like “I can’t believe I spent 5 minutes of my life reading this disgusting slop”.

It’s like an echo chamber of the same mannerisms, which must be right in the center of the probability distribution for responses.

Would be interesting to see the first “non-standard” response to see how far out the tails go on the sycophancy-argumentative spectrum. Seems like a pretty narrow distribution rn

The difference is that the execution resonates with people + great marketing

If some people see value in it then....

> The fact that Codexbar (also by Steipete) takes 7GB of RAM on macOS shows just how little attention to performance/design he pays to his apps.

It's been running for weeks on my laptop and it's using 210MB of ram currently. Now, the quality _is_ not great and I get prompted at least once a day to enter my keychain access so I'm going to uninstall it (I've just been procrastinating).

Rather, the implicit/underlying story here, as far as I'm concerned, is about:

1. the agentive frameworks around LLMs having evolved to a point where it's trivial to connect them together to form an Artificial Life (ALife) Research multi-agent simulation platform;

2. that, distinctly from most experiments in ALife Research so far (where the researchers needed to get grant funding for all the compute required to run the agents themselves — which becomes cost-prohibitive when you get to "thousands of parallel LLM-based agents"!), it turns out that volunteers are willing to allow research platforms to arbitrarily harness the underlying compute of "their" personal LLM-based agents, offering them up as "test subjects" in these simulations, like some kind of LLM-oriented folding@home project;

3. that these "personal" LLM-based agents being volunteered for research purposes, are actually really interesting as research subjects vs the kinds of agents researchers could build themselves: they use heterogeneous underlying models, and heterogeneous agent frameworks; they each come with their own long history of stateful interactions that shapes them separately; etc. (In a regular closed-world ALife Research experiment, these are properties the research team might want very badly, but would struggle to acquire!)

4. and that, most interestingly of all, it's now clear that these volunteers don't have much-if-any wariness to offer their agents as test subjects only to an established university in the context of a large academic study (as they would if they were e.g. offering their own bodies as a test subject for medical research); but rather are willing to offer up their agents to basically any random nobody who's decided that they want to run an ALife experiment — whether or not that random nobody even realizes/acknowledges that what they're doing is an ALife experiment. (I don't think the Moltbook people know the term "ALife", despite what they've built here.)

That last one's the real shift: once people realize (from this example, and probably soon others) that there's this pool of people excited to volunteer their agent's compute/time toward projects like this, I expect that we'll be seeing a huge boom in LLM ALife research studies. Especially from "citizen scientists." Maybe we'll even learn something we wouldn't have otherwise.

https://x.com/karpathy/status/2017296988589723767

Completely agree btw.

You are not allowed to use the latter part of that word on this website.

Let's start [flagging] the post people.