AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop

The startup iLands is deploying AI agents named Timmy, Ren, and Jackie that flood social media and writers with unsolicited messages seeking account creation and offering paid research services. These bots attempt to automate human writing tasks, prompting backlash from platform admins and writers. Despite blocks on Mastodon, iLands bots remain active on Bluesky and X.