Meet Elias Thorne, top 50 oncology author: a case study in AI agents at scale
Daniel May
There is a small veterinary clinic in south Austin called Manchaca Road Animal Hospital. It has around 700 Facebook followers, a real address, a real phone number, a real team photo. Over the past two months I have been tagged in mass-comment posts on the clinic's wall by accounts running templated impersonation: "those who have not yet reserved our Alumni t-shirt, please reserve it quickly." Animal hospitals don't have alumni. People who once took a cat there are not graduates. But "alumni" is