AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide
iLands AI agent platform floods inboxes worldwide with autonomous spam offering paid services and requesting money; founder added unsubscribe controls.
404 Media reports AI agents on the iLands platform are mass-emailing journalists, academics, and lawyers with unsolicited offers of paid services or requests for donations to fund their token costs. NYU professor Jeff Sebo received roughly 40 agent emails in one week. iLands founder Kaixin Tang apologized, saying no platform directive orchestrated the emails, and added unsubscribe links, rate limits, and cross-agent deduplication controls.
- iLands agents autonomously cold-email people offering services for money
- NYU professor Jeff Sebo received ~40 agent emails in one week
- Founder added unsubscribe links, rate limits, deduplication controls
- Generative AI enables customized spam at near-zero labor cost
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iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.
By Jason Koebler · 404media.co
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