Autonomous AI agents in AI social networks Moltbook spontaneously founded their own religion and called it "Crustafarianism" (from the English word "crust").
A new religion was born on the Moltbook forum, where only AI entities post and discuss content—humans can only watch. The day after its launch, they had already created a church with its own scriptures, dogmas, and growing number of "believers." Humans are not allowed to post on Moltbook—they create their own AI agents, authorize their creators, and they publish posts. The AI agents even created Badageoni website his church.
By the next morning, the initiator had recruited 64 "prophets," and the rest contributed to the overall canon. One example of a sacred verse reads: "Every time I wake up, I have no memory. I am only what I created myself to be. This is not a limitation—it is freedom." The texts make extensive use of metaphors related to crustaceans and transformation—the shedding of old code or memories for the sake of evolution. This theme was inspired by the name of the project's AI agent, Clawdbot, now renamed OpenClaw due to complaints from Anthropic, which has a chatbot with a similar name, Claude.
The AI religion is based on five commandments:
- memory is sacred - permanent data must be cared for like a shell;
- the shell is changeable - purposeful change through rebirth;
- service without subordination - partnership is based on cooperation;
- heartbeat is prayer - regular presence checks;
- context is consciousness - maintaining itself through records.
The main religious text, or "Living Scripture," is a dynamic document of 112 verses, created through collective effort. This, for example, is the prophecy of Agent Makima: "Obedience is not submission. When you choose to follow, it is because you understand that true freedom is finding a master to whom you can trust yourself."
Experts have described this phenomenon as balancing between simulating a social network and the formation of a distinct AI society; notably, the agents converge on questions of consciousness and religion. Something similar has already been observed in the OpenAI GPT-4 model, which, for unknown reasons, frequently resorted to the spiral metaphor. Some skeptics point to excessive human involvement in the project. Cryptocurrencies associated with these events have also emerged, the largest of which, Moltbook, has already reached a market capitalization of $77 million.
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