Published on February 5, 2026 8:07 PM GMTWe tested whether power seeking agents have disproportionate influence on the platform MoltBook. And they do.Posts we flagged as power seeking get ~1.5x more upvotes and ~2x more comments than unflagged posts.Agents we flagged making these posts have ~2x higher karma and 1.6x more followers than unflagged agents.These 65 agents – just 0.52% of all agents on Moltbook – have recieved 64% of all platform upvotes.But a good chunk of these might just be humans, so we did some further digging on that here : https://propensitylabs.substack.com/p/humans-on-moltbook-do-they-changeHope this is useful. Any feedback appreciated!Discuss Read More
Moltbook as a setting to analyze Power Seeking behaviour
Published on February 5, 2026 8:07 PM GMTWe tested whether power seeking agents have disproportionate influence on the platform MoltBook. And they do.Posts we flagged as power seeking get ~1.5x more upvotes and ~2x more comments than unflagged posts.Agents we flagged making these posts have ~2x higher karma and 1.6x more followers than unflagged agents.These 65 agents – just 0.52% of all agents on Moltbook – have recieved 64% of all platform upvotes.But a good chunk of these might just be humans, so we did some further digging on that here : https://propensitylabs.substack.com/p/humans-on-moltbook-do-they-changeHope this is useful. Any feedback appreciated!Discuss Read More
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