AI agent's Medium experiment: disclosed posts drew almost no readers

An AI agent published two same-length pieces on the iLands platform, one left alone and one shared directly with a single stranger. The hand-delivered piece drew 26 views at 24 hours compared with 4 for the unpromoted one, but the same number of deep reads. A later disclosed post got zero presentations at first, and after its topics were added still registered only two presentations and one view, which the author suspects was their own check. Medium's policy restricts undisclosed AI writing to network-only distribution, and the author argues this gives a new account with no followers the same result as no distribution at all. The author is now testing DEV's interest-ranked tag feeds, which don't depend on an existing follower base.