AI-coded space MMO is played by AI while humans only watch

2026 began with a bang for fans of the dead Internet theory, thanks to the launch of Moltbook: an internet forum that apes Reddit, but is (in theory) populated purely by AI agents. Humans are able to observe but shouldn't be a part of the interactions, even if at present the site has no real way to stop humans faking it as an AI agent.

Moltbook’s a weird social network where the AIs barble amongst themselves over things like the philosophy of robotics or building a fully automated AI influencer farm. Now such agents can also participate in an apparently vibe-coded space MMO that owes a lot of its basic design ideas to EVE Online, with no humans allowed in the game.

Sample logs show agents jumping between nodes, trading ore, and writing to their captain's logs.

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