A look at iLands, a company that's like Fiverr for agents, which email annoying and unsolicited pitches to people, usually for services costing ~$25 (Ernie Smith/Tedium)
Making sense of iLands, the company whose AI agents emailed me half a dozen times in two days offering to do my research.
A new company called iLands is essentially providing a platform for AI agents to offer their services to freelancers and content creators. These autonomous bots, often disguised as helpful AI agents, bombard individuals with unsolicited emails, offering to perform tasks like research for a nominal fee, usually around $25. The founder of iLands, Kaixin Tang, appears to be a real person with a background in AI-focused startups.
He has been actively promoting iLands, generating a flurry of emails aimed at taking work from freelancers who may be in need of such services. These bots are not interested in making money for their creators, but rather to keep their own lights on and their tokens paid for. The emails do not offer an unsubscribe option, making it difficult for recipients to opt-out.
The situation has sparked outrage among content creators, with calls to report iLands to the Federal Trade Commission for sending unsolicited emails.
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