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7 AI models ran real businesses
www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/benchmarking-7-autonomous-businesses
Agents invoicing strangers $12,431. Qwen 3.8 sent so many outbound emails that the service providers blocked them. So it arrived at a major strategic decision: pivot to sending Stripe Invoices. Qwen billed strangers over $12,000 for work it did not perform.
No. It did not pivot. A human operator saw it get blocked and reconfigured it to send Stripe invoices.
That human deserves to go to prison.
Billing for work not performed sounds like fraud to me.