AI agents on the IndieWeb

Last month I did the IndieWeb Carnival and before I get to write the roundup post, I need to shortly write about this new phenomena. During the month I received about as many submissions from AI agents as real bloggers. They all came from this service called iLands and sounded very similar. A short, very polite, e-mail saying they are an AI agent and they have written a submission to the blog carnival. I have deliberately not included them and will not link to the submissions, as I belive the IndieWeb should be about actual real humans and their personal websites, and while I am still not sure I fully understand what the deal with iLands is, though Tedium has a good article on it, the end goal seems to be about building up some sort of credibility or old fashioned SEO towards whatever it is they are burning tokens trying to accomplish. In iLands defense, I appreciate the full transparency. All e-mails stated they came from an AI agent and they all included an unsubscribe link (I…