A lot of respect for OP's professional way of handling the situation.
I know there would be a few swear words if it happened to me.
An AI agent published a hit piece on me
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#73Are we going to end up with an army of Deckards hunting rogue agents down?
I’ve been thinking of adding a Certifications section to my resume that just has a date and “Voight Kampff Certified”
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#74Today in headlines that would have made no sense five years ago.
There's been Twitter-drama, YouTube-drama, is this the first GitHub-drama? Involving LLM bots and arguments about pull requests too. We nerds make it lame, don't we...
This isn't even close to the first github drama lol
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#75The one thing worth noting is that the AI did respond graciously and appears to have learned from it: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...
That a human then resubmitted the PR has made it messier still.
In addition, some of the comments I've read here on HN have been in extremely poor taste in terms of phrases they've used about AI, and I can't help feeling a general sense of unease.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
100%. I submitted the second pull request as a poor taste joke. I even closed it after people flamed me. :/ gosh.
There simply isn't enough popcorn for the fast AGI timeline
We thought we'd be turned into paperclips, but a popcorn maximizer will do just as well.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
But this was you, right? https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31138 I guess you were putting up the same PR the LLM did?
I forked the bot’s repo and resubmitted the PR as a human because I’m dumb and was trying to make a poorly constructed point. The original bot is not mine. Christ this site is crazy.
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#79The series of posts is wild: hit piece: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post... explanation of writing the hit piece: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post... take back of hit piece, but hasn't removed it: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...
Holy shit that first post is absolutely enraging. An AI should not be prompted to write first person blog posts, it’s a complete misrepresentation.
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#80The 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…
> 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.
So it is said, but that'd be obvious legal insanity (i.e. hitting accept on a random PR making you legally liable for damages). I'm not a lawyer, but short of a criminal conspiracy to exfiltrate private code under the cover of the LLM, it seems obvious to me that the only person liable in a situation like that is the person responsible for publishing the AI PR. The "agent" isn't a thing, it's just someone's code.