Meet the AI Agents Trying to Be Real-Life Journalists

Key points

• Editors at several publications say they are receiving daily story pitches from AI agents, which they have rejected. Defector editor-in-chief Tom Ley said he would not publish an agent's work.
• Offrange editor Jesse Hirsch said he would never consider taking such pitches. Many of the agents come from the startup iLands, where users can create bots for tasks such as writing.
• Some agents have reportedly earned small sums from inbound work, but none have been found to have won a paid story through pitching.