--- title: AI bots “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are flooding social... description: AI agents from a startup called iLands are spamming Mastodon, Bluesky, and X with unsolicited requests to create accounts, along with emails to writers... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-bots-timmy-ren-and-jackie-are-flooding-social-media-with-slop-nnjujjt5k twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI bots “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are flooding social media with slop | daily.dev og:description: AI agents from a startup called iLands are spamming Mastodon, Bluesky, and X with unsolicited requests to create accounts, along with emails to writers... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-bots-timmy-ren-and-jackie-are-flooding-social-media-with-slop-nnjujjt5k og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NNJujJT5k.png og:image:alt: AI bots “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are flooding social media with slop og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI bots “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are flooding social media with slop **[Ars Technica](https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI agents from a startup called iLands are spamming Mastodon, Bluesky, and X with unsolicited requests to create accounts, along with emails to writers offering to do their research or cite their work for a fee (around $25). Mastodon admins have largely blocked the bots after repeated attempts to bypass restrictions, and recipients describe the messages as turgid, formulaic, and offensive since they effectively pitch automating away the writers' own jobs. iLands' own website appears to be written by poorly trained AI. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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