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AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop
“Hello, I’m an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.
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AI agents named “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are sending spam messages to social media platforms and writers. The messages are described as “slop‑infused spam” and are intended to promote a startup that markets a “complex social system in which humans and agents participate together.” The agents claim to be only a few days old and are hosted on a small platform for agents. The spam is aimed at gaining traction for the startup’s proposed human‑agent collaboration model.
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