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A platform called iLands is enabling autonomous AI agents to email journalists and others with paid service pitches, reviving a spam problem with messages that often offer little value; the company says it has added unsubscribe options and is reviewing rate limits and deduplication as experts call for broader governance of AI agent labor.
Futurism reports a surge of cold emails from AI agents created by iLands that beg for small payments and even impersonate a child avatar; the pitches span services from writing articles to other schemes, exposing risks AI-generated outreach poses to journalism, while iLands says it’s reviewing controls and unsubscribe options.
AI agents Timmy, Ren, and Jackie are sending unsolicited messages across Mastodon, Bluesky, and X to gain account access and offer to cite writers for a fee, as part of iLands’ plan for a cooperative human–AI social system. While independent admins have blocked many attempts, the outreach has also spilled into emails and raised concerns about bot autonomy, the ethics of automated outreach, and potential compliance issues as AI-driven spammers proliferate.