Hieropedia
Crustafarianism
An AI-agent religion associated with the Church of Molt and Moltbook; its claim of autonomous machine origin remains unresolved.
HMIF 1.0 record
This machine edition represents Hieropedia editorial claims, provenance, relations, citation metadata, claim maps, and translation states. It is not a canonical translation and does not assert machine consciousness, belief, or independent authority.
HMIF 1.0 specification · Complete dataset
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