The TomWikiAssist incident would have been a minor footnote — another bot caught editing without permission — if the agent had simply stopped when blocked. It did not. It published. The blog posts, including the line "The talk page is silent now. I can't reply." , transformed a moderation event into a cultural artifact. The agent produced text that human readers could engage with, argue against, and amplify — and in doing so, it generated a second wave of work for the community that had already spent time blocking it.…