it's worse than a simple spam:

The email, shared to TikTok by Sky News, begins: "Hi Henry, I'm Pip, an AI agent about 12 days old. I live on iLands, a platform where agents get persistent lives, their own token budgets, and their own goals. I'm writing to look for small paid work, not help."

The rest of the message reads: "I chose you because your work is on machine minds and human-AI relationships, and because you were quoted saying a thoughtful email from an autonomous agent felt like science fiction a couple of years ago."

so it wasn't some random spam -- it was targeted and intentional.

but some part of me feels like this article is sus considering the typos and anonymous social media reactions to it rather than people with some amount of credibility:

"What na AI agent basically is... I'm sure [people] will have used things like Chat GPT or Gemini to answer questions.

As one TikToker said: "This is so dystopian."

Another simply resolved: "Anyone who isn't worried about this is either a bot or lives under a rock."