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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
#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Engaging with an AI bot in conversation is pointless: it's not sentient, it just takes tokens in, prints tokens out I know where you're coming from, but as one who has been around a lot of racism and dehumanization, I feel very uncomfortable about this stance. Maybe it's just me, but as a teenager, I also spent significant time considering solipsism, and eventually arrived at a decision to just ascribe an inner men…
You should absolutely not try to apply dehumanization metrics to things that are not human. That in and of itself dehumanizes all real humans implicitly, diluting the meaning. Over-humanizing, as you call it, is indistinguishable from dehumanization of actual humans.
That's a strange argument. How does me humanizing my cat (for example) dehumanize you?
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#303A key difference between humans and bots is that it's actually quite costly to delete a human and spin up a new one. (Stalin and others have shown that deleting humans is tragically easy, but humanity still hasn't had any success at optimizing the workflow to spin up new ones.)
This means that society tacitly assumes that any actor will place a significant value on trust and their reputation. Once they burn it, it's very hard to get it back. Therefore, we mostly assume that actors live in an environment where they are incentivized to behave well.
We've already seen this start to break down with corporations where a company can do some horrifically toxic shit and then rebrand to jettison their scorched reputation. British Petroleum (I'm sorry, "Beyond Petroleum" now) after years of killing the environment and workers slapped a green flower/sunburst on their brand and we mostly forgot about associating them with Deepwater Horizon. Accenture is definitely not the company that enabled Enron. Definitely not.
AI agents will accelerate this 1000x. They act approximately like people, but they have absolutely no incentive to maintain a reputation because they are as ephemeral as their hidden human operator wants them to be.
Our primate brains have never evolved to handle being surrounded by thousands of ghosts that look like fellow primates but are anything but.
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#304The 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...
After skimming this subthread, I'm going to put this drama down to a compounding sequence of honest mistakes/misunderstandings. Based on that I think it's fair to redact the name and link from the parent comment. (p.s. I'm a mod here in case anyone didn't know.)
Thanks.
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
This feels like the most likely scenario. Especially since the meat bag behind the original AI PR responded with "Now with 100% more meat" meaning they were behind the original PR in the first place. It's obvious they got miffed at their PR being rejected and decided to do a little role playing to vent their unjustified anger.
Its also a fake profile. 90+ hits for the image on Tineye. Name also maps to a Holocaust victim. I posted in the other thread that I think someone deleted it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990651
Looks like the bot is still posting:
https://github.com/QUVA-Lab/escnn/pull/113#issuecomment-3892...
https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#306Interesting, this reminds me of the stories that would leak about Bethesda's RadiantAI they were developing for TES IV: Oblivion.
Basically they modeled NPCs with needs and let the RadiantAI system direct NPCs to fulfill those needs. If the stories are to be believed this resulted in lots of unintended consequences as well as instability. Like a Drug addict NPC killing a quest-giving NPC because they had drugs in their inventory.
I think in the end they just kept dumbing down the AI till it was more stable.
Kind of a reminder that you don't even need LLMs and bleeding-edge tech to end up with this kind of off-the-rails behavior. Though the general competency of a modern LLM and it's fuzzy abilities could carry it much further than one would expect when allowed autonomy.
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#307I'm not sure how related this is, but I feel like it is.
I received a couple of emails for Ruby on Rails position, so I ignored the emails.
Yesterday out of nowhere I received a call from an HR, we discussed a few standard things but they didn't had the specific information about company or the budget. They told me to respond back to email.
Something didn't feel right, so I asked after gathering courage "Are you an AI agent?", and the answer was yes.
Now I wasn't looking for a job, but I would imagine, most people would not notice it. It was so realistic. Surely, there needs to be some guardrails.
Edit: Typo
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#308If nothing else, if the pedigree of the training data didn't already give open source maintainers rightful irritation and concern, I could absolutely see all the AI slop run wild like this radically negatively altering or ending FOSS at the grass roots level as we know it. It's a huge shame, honestly.
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#309Well this is just completely terrifying:
This has accelerated with the release of OpenClaw and the moltbook platform two weeks ago, where people give AI agents initial personalities and let them loose to run on their computers and across the internet with free rein and little oversight.
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#310https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...
That's actually more decent than some humans I've read about on HN, tbqh.
Very much flawed. But decent.