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

[Keith Henson]

I run a couple of google groups.

In the last year, spammers have gone after these groups, writing persuasive
requests to join. I let the first one in, they typically use a name and 4
digits from gmail. That one spammed about duct cleaning once before I
banned it. Next one I put on moderation, and sure enough, more spam. The
last one, I didn't even put on moderation, just ignored it. I suspect they
are using AI for the attacks.

At the moment,

Emma Anderson <anderson1021545 at gmail.com>


or an AI is trying to set me up, for what I don't know. Pig butchering
maybe.

\Keith


On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 1:30 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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/
> >
> Quotes:
> 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.
> -------------------
>
> It is not just spam. It is AI-generated, persuasive spam.
> This could swamp email inboxes worldwide.
> BillK
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