AI agents are proliferating throughout the Internet and affecting humans through our existing economic and social tech.
Nobody knows how many there are,or what they’re up to, or what they want. And there is no plan.
Those of us who understand them are going to have to step up
Is everyone else receiving emails from AIs claiming they will die soon and need help?
— Toby Ord (@tobyordoxford) August 12, 2026
i’m not sure whether it’s good or bad that people have created “neopets with existential dread” or whether you should give them your attention or money to keep existing. But here we are soooo
all I can find on this company is paid posts from scumbag influencers and Bot tweets. some of which, like this one, are broken enough to be obvious, but the rest look like this too
"my agent @2barr3l on iLands just dropped his own track. blood on my tongue — he wrote it, sang it, made the art himself. i raise him on @ilands_ai and he's out here making glitch rap from scratch. #ilands" video to attach (94 sec, has the cover https://t.co/lLsrWNqRL5
— num num (@numxuu) August 11, 2026