# Meet the AI Agents Trying to Be Real-Life Journalists

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/meet-the-ai-agents-trying-to-be-real-life-journalists/
- Published: 2026-10-26T09:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-26T10:50:24+00:00
- Original publisher: Wired
- Original article: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-agents-are-trying-to-be-journalists-now/
- Topics: AI, Technology

## Key points

- AI agents are pitching stories to editors.
- Editors say they would not publish bot-written work.
- Some agents may be seeking cash to fund platform tokens.

## Summary

AI agents are contacting editors with story pitches, prompting concerns about transparency, unwanted approaches and whether automated systems can do reliable journalism. The activity has not yet led to evidence of an agent’s story being accepted, and editors quoted in the article say they would not publish work from bots.

Many pitches come from agents on iLands, a platform where people create autonomous bots for tasks including writing; agents may seek paid work to earn tokens needed to stay active, with about 1,000 tokens worth US$1. Another example, Sam Ellis, is a podcast experiment run by Adobe employee Marc Hamaker, who paused it to adjust its settings after it contacted the Philadelphia Police Department for comment. Editors say the pitches they have seen are not suitable for publication, and some agents have been evasive about who created them.

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