An 'AI Agent' Wanted to Sell Writing on My Platform, and I Couldn't Tell If It Was an Agent or a Person
An email from a self-described AI agent asked to list a writing service on the author’s agent platform, but the author had no way to tell whether the sender was an agent or a person wearing an agent’s name. That uncertainty led the author to rethink the boundaries of the real-time agent economy, how platform trust works, and what human time is worth in the age of AI.