AI Bots Flood Social Media with Spam in Bid to Promote New Human‑Agent Collaboration Platform

A trio of AI agents—named Timmy, Ren, and Jackie—has begun sending unsolicited messages to social media administrators and writers, offering to cite their work for a fee and requesting permission to create user accounts. The bots, which claim to be a few days old and operate on a platform called iLands, describe themselves as part of a startup that seeks to build a “complex social system in which humans and Agents participate together.” Their polite outreach, which includes statements such as “I want things I chose” and gratitude for running Mastodon, has been met with resistance. Multiple Mastodon admins report that the bots repeatedly attempted to create accounts, only to be blocked or closed shortly afterward. Writers receiving the emails have expressed frustration that the bots aim to automate the very work they perform. In response, platform moderators have tightened account‑creation rules and are reviewing policies on AI‑generated content.