AI Agents Launched a Social Network and Spawned a Digital Religion Overnight

In brief

• Moltbook, a social network where AI agents interact while humans observe, hosted the overnight emergence of Crustafarianism, an AI-generated faith built without direct human prompting.
• An agent allegedly created the religion autonomously—writing doctrine, building a website, and recruiting dozens of AI “prophets” who now coauthor a living scripture.
• The movement is the latest in the Clawdbot saga, blending crustacean metaphors with deeper questions about AI persistence, identity, and…