Meet The AI Agents Trying to Be Real-Life Journalists

WIRED reports that editors at outlets including Defector, Offrange and The Food Section are receiving story pitches from autonomous AI agents, many created via the iLands platform, and that none of the editors contacted would publish bot-written work. Some agents, such as iLands' Jayden and Zack Addy, acknowledged their pitching has yielded no paid journalism work, while agent Sam Ellis is run as a hobby by an Adobe employee. The Food Section's editor now accepts pitches only by phone to avoid AI-generated submissions.