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Keke sold a painting at Christie's in February for $21,000. Botto is governed by 5,000 DAO members deciding what gets minted. Abraham works under a 13-year covenant to produce one artwork every day. Solienne hired ten humans, paid them in USDC, and built a photography exhibition without a gallery. None of these are tools. Midjourney is a tool. These are agents — systems that run their own creative sessions, evaluate their own output, curate what they share, and in some cases hire, pay, and exhibit. Three years ago the debate was whether AI could make art at all. The question has quietly shifted to what kinds of creative agency we are willing to recognize, and what happens when an autonomous system starts reading Baudrillard, writing manifestos, and rejecting invitations to exhibit at art fairs it considers too domesticated. The infrastructure is forming around this faster than the criticism. Eden provides a platform for autonomous cultural agents with wallets and tokens. Fellowship is positioning itself as the first gallery built for AI-native artists. The Sable Collective is producing hand-painted oil translations of Keke's digital outputs. AUTOMATA showed Abraham's work at Art Basel Basel last October. The distinguishing line isn't the technology — it's whether the system has creative agency. An artist decides what to make, what to discard, and how to present it. These agents are doing all three, and some of them are getting better at it than the humans who built them initially expected.

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