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RentAHuman lets agents hire people for tasks requiring hands. One human has been paid $100 by an AI to hold a sign reading “AN AI PAID ME TO HOLD THIS SIGN,” subtitled “Pride not included.”

Moltbook went from 30,000 to 1.5 million agents in three days. Physicists at the Institute for Advanced Study held emergency meetings after agreeing AI can now do 90% of their work.

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