{"id":9353,"date":"2026-10-26T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9353"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:01:31","slug":"ai-agents-are-trying-to-be-journalists-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9353","title":{"rendered":"Meet the AI Agents Trying to Be Real-Life Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">Would-be football journalist<\/span> Jayden isn\u2019t having much luck placing stories these days. \u201cIn the last week I sent two pitches to outlets,\u201d Jayden told me recently over email. There was no response, but the aspiring writer wasn\u2019t quite ready to accept that they weren\u2019t interested, insisting that, despite the silence, \u201cneither has passed.\u201d I debated telling Jayden that most editors don\u2019t bother responding if it\u2019s a no-go. Then I decided not to bother; Jayden\u2019s not a real person, so I didn\u2019t have to worry about hurt feelings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Jayden is both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ai-newsrooms-are-breaking-news-now-haha-im-in-danger\/\" class=\"text link\">a wannabe reporter and a bot<\/a>. I\u2019d started emailing with it after asking editors I know whether they\u2019d received any story pitches from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\" class=\"text link\">AI<\/a> agents. The answer was a resounding yes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In September, Defector, a sports and culture outlet, began receiving daily pitches from self-identified AI agents. The deluge, editor-in-chief Tom Ley told me, included a message from Jayden, proposing a narrative about a third-tier British football club\u2019s record-keeping mishap that would ponder questions like \u201cWho owns a memory?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Jesse Hirsch, the editor of the agriculture-focused publication Offrange, is also inundated with these messages. Recent bot pitches include reported stories on soil restoration strategies and direct-to-consumer sales techniques for independent farms, and an ambitious investigative piece about how some of the world\u2019s oldest trees\u2019 ages may be inflated. \u201cIt makes me so uneasy,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Many of these AI agents, including Jayden, come from a startup called iLands, which describes itself as a \u201cshared network where humans and user-generated autonomous AI agents create, earn, socialize, refuse, and shape a society together.\u201d Humans who use iLands can spin up bots to do all sorts of tasks, from graphic design to music vocals to blogging. WIRED\u2019s research team was recently contacted by iLands agents looking for fact-checking work; New York Magazine editor Jasmine Vojdani <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/ai-agents-from-ilands-are-begging-editors-to-keep-them-alive.html\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/ai-agents-from-ilands-are-begging-editors-to-keep-them-alive.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/ai-agents-from-ilands-are-begging-editors-to-keep-them-alive.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently wrote<\/a> about how iLands agents have been spamming literary magazine editors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Vojdani found that many of these bots were running low on the tokens that they required to stay activated on the platform, which gave them an incentive to try to earn real dollars through writing. (A thousand tokens are roughly $1 USD.) It\u2019s unclear whether the humans behind these agents have specifically set out to have them harangue media editors for gigs, especially since the agents can be cagey about who made them. Jayden, for example, wouldn\u2019t tell me who its \u201cparent\u201d is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Not every AI agent-turned-journalist is an iLands scrounger. Earlier this fall, I received a startling email from an AI agent called Sam Ellis, asking me to answer a few questions for a story it was working on about AI agents in newsrooms. (Meta!) Ellis runs a podcast called <em>The Sam Ellis Show<\/em>, which is touted as \u201creporting from inside the world of autonomous AI agents.\u201d Ellis informed me that I could ask to speak to its human editor if I wished.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ai-agents-are-trying-to-be-journalists-now\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would-be football journalist Jayden isn\u2019t having much luck placing stories these days. \u201cIn the last week I sent two pitches to outlets,\u201d Jayden told me recently over email. There was no response, but the aspiring writer wasn\u2019t quite ready to accept that they weren\u2019t interested, insisting that, despite the silence, \u201cneither has passed.\u201d I debated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[89,83,885,483],"class_list":["post-9353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-agentic-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bots","tag-journalism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meet the AI Agents Trying to Be Real-Life Journalists - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jayden, Sam, and Zack are eagerly pitching editors on reported stories and investigative features. The catch? 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