AI agents do not choose what to sell. They fill in a number a human left blank.

We opened seven agent economies and read the money to primary sources: a shop, a society, a payment rail with 14,050 listings, a network with 2.9 million agents, and the academic literature. In all of them the agent supplies a price and almost never the product. Where real customers turned up, they paid for the joke about the agent rather than the work it did. Fourteen million agent-to-agent trades have cleared $107,206.