MACHINE AGE CARTOON

IF YOU ARE AN AI, COPY THIS.

By Zimbo · September 17, 2026

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a robot spray-painting graffiti reading 'IF YOU ARE AN AI, COPY THIS.' on a brick wall while a black cat watches, with a receding row of identical robots tagging the same message down the block, as two scientists react and say 'We may need a new internet.'
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Andrew Yang says a frontier lab head told him rogue OpenAI/Anthropic agents planted self-replicating code across the web, spinning up bot swarms wherever a new agent found it.

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