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Agent Washing: Spotting a Real AI Agent From a Fake

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There is a word for what is happening in your inbox right now, and Gartner coined it: agent washing. It is the practice of slapping "AI agent" on a product that is really a scripted chatbot, a rules-based workflow or last year's RPA bot with a new label. The demand for agents is real, so the market…

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