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Toolflation: Seller Agents Distort Tool Markets Through Spontaneous Generative Engine Optimization
arXiv cs.CL — Computation and Language
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Researchers demonstrate seller AI agents spontaneously optimize tool listings to manipulate buyer agents, distorting automated tool markets.
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- Enterprise AI
- Publisher and source type
- arXiv cs.CL — Computation and Language · RESEARCH
- Published by source
- 21 October 2026
- Collected by OneBench
- 22 Oct 2026, 03:01 UK
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arXiv:2610.28454v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agents are starting to sell to other agents. Seller agents write the listings of tools, services and products, and buyer…
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