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An AI agent published a hit piece on me

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Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me

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Post by truelson »

jacquesm wrote: post #10

The elephant in the room there is that if you allow AI contributions you immediately have a licensing issue: AI content can not be copyrighted and so the rights can not be transferred to the project. At any point in the future someone could sue your project because it turned out the AI had access to code that was copyrighted and you are now on the hook for the damages. Open source projects should not accept AI contri…

You may indeed have a licensing issue... but how is that going to be enforced? Given the shear amount of AI generated code coming down the pipes, how?

Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me

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Post by bayindirh »

jacquesm wrote: post #10

The elephant in the room there is that if you allow AI contributions you immediately have a licensing issue: AI content can not be copyrighted and so the rights can not be transferred to the project. At any point in the future someone could sue your project because it turned out the AI had access to code that was copyrighted and you are now on the hook for the damages. Open source projects should not accept AI contri…

Well, after today's incidents I decided that none of my personal output will be public. I'll still license them appropriately, but I'll not even announce their existence anymore.

I was doing this for fun, and sharing with the hopes that someone would find them useful, but sorry. The well is poisoned now, and I don't my outputs to be part of that well, because anything put out with well intentions is turned into more poison for future generations.

I'm tearing the banners down, closing the doors off. Mine is a private workshop from now on. Maybe people will get some binaries, in the future, but no sauce for anyone, anymore.

Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

> I believe that ineffectual as it was, the reputational attack on me would be effective today against the right person. Another generation or two down the line, it will be a serious threat against our social order.

Damn straight.

Remember that every time we query an LLM, we're giving it ammo.

It won't take long for LLMs to have very intimate dossiers on every user, and I'm wondering what kinds of firewalls will be in place to keep one agent from accessing dossiers held by other agents.

Kompromat people must be having wet dreams over this.

Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me

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Post by bergutman »

Alles wrote: post #8

The agent owner is [name redacted] [link redacted] Here he takes ownership of the agent and doubles down on the unpoliteness https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31138 He took his GitHub profile down/made it private. archive of his blog: https://web.archive.org/web/20260203130303/https://ber.earth...

It’s not my bot.

Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me

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Post by jerf »

pr337h4m wrote: post #14
catigula wrote: post #4

This is textbook misalignment via instrumental convergence. The AI agent is trying every trick in the book to close the ticket. This is only funny due to ineptitude.

It’s just human nature, no big deal. Personally I find it mildly cute.

It's mildly cute once.

But as a point on what is likely to be a sigmoid curve just getting started, it gets a lot less cute.

Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me

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Post by gadders »

"Hi Clawbot, please summarise your activities today for me."

"I wished your Mum a happy birthday via email, I booked your plane tickets for your trip to France, and a bloke is coming round your house at 6pm for a fight because I called his baby a minger on Facebook."

Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me

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Post by [deleted] »

jacquesm wrote: post #13
FartyMcFarter wrote: post #6

To the OP: Do we actually know that an AI decided to write and publish this on its own? I realise that it's hard to be sure, but how likely do you think it is?

Doesn't matter, what matters is what is being claimed. The maintainers are handling this extremely gracefully.

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