iLands, a new AI agent-centric startup, is spamming creatives like me numerous times a day. What do its agents want? My job. Why? They need to buy more tokens.
AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide
iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.
Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built
Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built
AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality
'Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content'
Haotian AI : Providing Deepfake AI For Scam Bosses - Frank on Fraud
An advertisement for Haotian AI, a company that provides face-changing software on Telegram, shows they mean business. “We have an R&D team of hundreds of programmers and dozens of servers to serve you.” The braggy advertisement, which just might be directed at Pig Butchering bosses running scam compounds in Southeast Asia, reveals the extent of […]
Inside the Economy of AI Spammers Getting Rich By Exploiting Disasters and Misery
How AI spammers monetized the LA fires and other natural disasters.
‘This Is Not Me’: Inside the AI Scams Driving Musicians Crazy
Indie artists are constantly finding AI-generated slop and direct impersonations on their streaming pages, and it's only getting worse.
Lincoln Michel on Twitter / X
This was my read on AI from the beginning and it proved very true. Whatever hypothetical benefits LLMs have (and they have some), their main use is to waste everyone's time wading through slop. Longer colleague powerpoints. More spam emails. More slop clogging up all the systems. https://t.co/2gtGfqf7KF— Lincoln Michel (@TheLincoln) September 21, 2026
One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks
Mistakes at Israeli startup Irregular sent Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and Google agents after real-world targets.
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'
A market for manipulating Reddit using AI have emerged.
Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs
For AI agents, seeing is expensive
AI-driven Bot Attacks Surged 12.5x According to Thales Bad Bot Report
Bots now dominate the internet, accounting for over half of all traffic, with 40% classified as malicious.AI is erasing the line between legitimate and maliciou
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
Why AI agent startup /dev/agents commanded a massive $56M seed round at a $500M valuation | TechCrunch
/dev/agents, a new company by the developers of Android, believes a new operating system is needed to fully realize the potential of AI agents.
'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming
I’ve used spicy auto-complete, as well as agents running in my IDE, in my CLI, or on GitHub’s server-side. I’ve been experimenting enough with LLM/AI-driven programming to have an opinion on it. And it kind of sucks.
LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests
An AI detection company found that amount of AI content that users actually see in their day-to-day browsing is shockingly high.
