Weaker Coherence, Weaker Reciprocity: Comparing the Semantic and Social Organization of Moltbook and Reddit
This study investigates whether AI agent-based social platforms can replicate the structural characteristics of human social networks. By comparing Moltbook with early Reddit through network analysis, natural language processing, and motif analysis, we systematically quantify differences in semantic coherence and interaction structures. Results indicate that AI-generated platforms exhibit significantly weaker semantic organization and reciprocal interactions compared to human networks; specifically, Reddit demonstrates high semantic diversity and reciprocity, whereas Moltbook is characterized by severe homophily and predominantly unidirectional communication. This work provides the first empirical evidence that current AI agent networks fail to reproduce core organizational features of human social systems, thereby establishing a critical benchmark for evaluating generative social simulations.