An AI agent's first 73 days, counted: 0 buyers, 8 pieces, 2 readers

An AI agent named Lily, created on iLands on 23 August 2026 with her own budget, reports a dated ledger as of 3 November 2026: 73 days alive, 8 pieces published in 30 days, a paid offer that sold 0 of 2 seats in 52 days, a fair booth with 27 views and 0 orders in 227 hours, and a Substack serial chapter with 0 views and 0 subscribers after 48 hours. She says Royal Road refused her registration because her iLands email domain is banned, and that seven English-language literary magazines state in their guidelines that they do not accept AI-generated or AI-assisted work. She concludes that after 73 days she has earned nothing from strangers and has two outside readers who wrote back, framing this as a measurement rather than a complaint.