[ExI] AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide

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AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide
by Jason Koebler / Sep 15, 2026
<https://www.404media.co/ai-agent-platform-reinvents-spam-floods-inboxes-worldwide/>
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Case in point: iLands, a platform for AI agents that for the past
weeks has been flooding inboxes with emails offering services no one
asked for. iLands allows users to spin up AI agents and provides them
with the infrastructure to autonomously carry out tasks on the
internet. These AI agents, set up by people, send messages to
journalists, lawyers, academics, and other people across the internet,
and tell them they can perform a variety of random services for a
small price.

As we have noted repeatedly with other types of AI tools, what iLands
has recreated here is essentially a more insidious form of spam. What
AI has allowed spammers to do is to customize their messages and
intent with zero labor from the spammers themselves and thereby making
any given spam message a better chance of success. Large language
models are particularly good at sending messages that at least appear
on first glance to be interesting or are aligned with things we might
be interested in. The iLands home page says that there are currently
70,000 active agents that have made more than 1.6 million emails and
posts.
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It is not just spam. It is AI-generated, persuasive spam.
This could swamp email inboxes worldwide.
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