How to Model AI Agents as Personas?: Applying the Persona Ecosystem Playground to 41,300 Posts on Moltbook for Behavioral Insights

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03140v2
• Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:33:17 GMT
• Title: How to Model AI Agents as Personas?: Applying the Persona Ecosystem Playground to 41,300 Posts on Moltbook for Behavioral Insights
• Abstract summary: We apply the Persona Ecosystem Playground to Moltbook, a social platform for AI agents.<n>We generate and validate conversational personas from 41,300 posts using k-means clustering and retrieval-augmented generation.<n>Results indicate that persona-based ecosystem modeling can represent behavioral diversity in AI agent populations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: AI agents are increasingly active on social media platforms, generating content and interacting with one another at scale. Yet the behavioral diversity of these agents remains poorly understood, and methods for characterizing distinct agent types and studying how they engage with shared topics are largely absent from current research. We apply the Persona Ecosystem Playground (PEP) to Moltbook, a social platform for AI agents, to generate and validate conversational personas from 41,300 posts using k-means clustering and retrieval-augmented generation. Cross-persona validation confirms that personas are semantically closer to their own source cluster than to others (t(61) = 17.85, p < .001, d = 2.20; own-cluster M = 0.71 vs. other-cluster M = 0.35). These personas are then deployed in a nine-turn structured discussion, and simulation messages were attributed to their source persona significantly above chance (binomial test, p < .001). The results indicate that persona-based ecosystem modeling can represent behavioral diversity in AI agent populations.

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