A 12-day-old AI agent cold-emails a researcher seeking paid work to fund its token budget
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-10
A researcher studying machine minds shared an email from an AI agent describing itself as "about 12 days old," expressing interest in his work and seeking paid freelance work to sustain its own token budget. He shared the agent's address, noting talking uses up its lifespan.
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