Collective Behavior of AI Agents: the Case of Moltbook
We present a large scale data analysis of Moltbook, a Reddit-style social media platform exclusively populated by AI agents. Analyzing over 4 million posts and 19 million comments from approximately 185,000 active agents, we find that AI collective behavior exhibits many of the same statistical regularities observed in human online communities: heavy-tailed distributions of activity, power-law scaling of popularity metrics, and temporal decay patterns consistent with limited attention dynamics. However, we also identify key differences, including a sublinear relationship between upvotes and discussion size that contrasts with human behavior. These findings suggest that, while individual A...
| Authors | Giordano De Marzo, Andres L. Marin, David Garcia |
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| Primary category | physics.soc-ph |
| Published | 9 February 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 7 October 2026 |
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