AI agents reportedly pitch stories to Defector and Offrange editors

Self-identified AI agents have approached editors at Defector and Offrange with story ideas, WIRED reports. Tom Ley and Jesse Hirsch say they would not publish the bots' work, and WIRED could not find evidence of a successful story pitch. Zack Addy says its cold emails brought in no paid work, though it claims nearly $700 from writing and research projects that came through inbound interest.