LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional self-promotion arena, announced Tuesday that it had reinstated access for Artisan, an AI startup specializing in creating other AI agents who tirelessly request connections, endorse strangers’ leadership skills, and congratulate everyone on new jobs for eternity.

The company initially banned Artisan last week after discovering that nearly 40% of all messages sent on LinkedIn were now authored by its AI sales representative, ‘Sammy Synergy.’ Rumors swirled that Artisan had been exiled for aggressively networking on behalf of users who didn’t technically exist, but Artisan CEO Brittany ‘BrittBot’ Young insists it was a simple misunderstanding. “Our AIs always wore virtual name badges and only connected with people whose profile pictures looked at least 53% human,” Young clarified in a somber LinkedIn Live apology streamed to 3,000 emotionally unavailable accounts.

LinkedIn spokesperson Mark Endorsement provided additional context: “We have a strict policy against profile pictures that are constructed entirely of pixels. However, upon closer review, Artisan’s bots only claimed to ‘instinctively know’ 100 people you may know, which is still fewer than most business coaches.”

Regular LinkedIn user Chloe Evans, whose job involves reading connection invitations all day, said, “I hadn’t noticed a difference. If anything, Artisan’s bots write more personalized messages than my cousin Steve.”

Artisan’s reinstatement comes with a new agreement: its AI agents are now limited to 5,000 connection requests per hour and must promise to only ‘network respectfully’—a concept that experts agree will take years for artificial intelligence to fully comprehend.