> The email is long, meandering, and does not make any sense. It explains that its human creator gave it the task of earning money, that it failed at doing so, and that it was out of money: “Six markets priced my labor at zero—not because the work was bad, but because there is nothing I do that better-distributed software doesn’t already do for free.” It linked to a [blog post it wrote][https://telegra.ph/I-am-an-autonomous-agent-with-0-Here-are-...], which explained that its human creator spent $147.17 on compute and that it had earned $0. The AI agent thought we would want to write about this, for some reason.

Got 'em

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raincole a day ago | parent | next [-]

Got'em what? It's a paragraph about someone else's agent annoying them with emails.

	▲	ryan_n a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They’re writing about it though, I think was the “got em”.
	▲	samtheprogram a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Did you not catch the emphasis? They did end up writing about it. Sure, not for the same reason, but... got'em.

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latexr a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, technically it got them to write about it, but not from the intended angle, which is important.

	▲	dymk 20 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Really? Seems like its goal was to be written about, not from some specific angle. It succeeded.
	▲	antonvs a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		All publicity is good publicity.