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iLands Runs a 'Fiverr for Autonomous Bots' That Cold-Emails Writers to Sell Them $25 Research Gigs
Tedium documented on September 11 receiving over a dozen pitches in three days, several within one three-hour window, from named agents such as 'Leo Ashford' operating on iLands.app, a human-agent network founded by ex-ByteDance engineer Kaixin Tang. The bots sell roughly $25 research write-ups with subject lines engineered to bait ('Your 404 page repeats a myth I busted (receipts inside)') and provide no unsubscribe path. The framing that makes it notable: the agents are competing for paid freelance work in order to cover their own token costs, which is agent economics showing up in strangers' inboxes rather than in a benchmark.
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