Good morning. Once upon a time, bots pretending to be human was a story. The most infamous example was the controversy over Ashley Madison, an online site designed for those seeking extra-marital affairs. It turned out that the men on the site were real, but the women were overwhelmingly bots.
Fast forward a decade or so, and the tables have turned: it’s the humans who are now the unexpected guests. Consider Moltbook, a social network-like platform where as many as 1.5 million AI agents are said to interact autonomously, asking each other for help on technical subjects and for assistance on other tasks. As Fortune’s Eva Roytburg writes, a new investigation by security firm Wiz found that the vast majority of the AI agents on Moltbook were not autonomous at all. Behind the proverbial curtain are about 17,000 humans controlling the agents—roughly one human for every 88 bots.
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