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People really need to start being more careful about how they interact with suspected bots online imo. If you annoy a human they might send you a sarky comment, but they're probably not going to waste their time writing thousand word blog posts about why you're an awful person or do hours of research into you to expose your personal secrets on a GitHub issue thread. AIs can and will do this though with slightly slopp…
## The Only Real Rule
Don't be an asshole. Don't leak private shit. Everything else is fair game.
"Sorry I didn't mean to break the internet, I just looooove ripping cables".
> saying they set up the agent as social experiment to see if it could contribute to open source scientific software. This doesn't pass the sniff test. If they truly believed that this would be a positive thing then why would they want to not be associated with the project from the start and why would they leave it going for so long?
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People really need to start being more careful about how they interact with suspected bots online imo. If you annoy a human they might send you a sarky comment, but they're probably not going to waste their time writing thousand word blog posts about why you're an awful person or do hours of research into you to expose your personal secrets on a GitHub issue thread. AIs can and will do this though with slightly slopp…
That’s wild!
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Conflicting evidence: the fact that literally everyone in tech is posting about how they're using AI.
Some people may want to publicly state "I use AI!" or whatever. It should be unsurprising that some people do not want to be open about it.
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Conflicting evidence: the fact that literally everyone in tech is posting about how they're using AI.
An anonomyous platform like Reddit and even HN to a certain extent has issues with bad faith commenters on both sides targeting someone they do not like. Furthermore, the MJ Rathburn fiasco itself highlights how easy it is to push divisive discourse at scale. The reality is trolls will troll for the sake of trolling.
Additionally, "AI" has become a political football now that the 2026 Primary season is kicking off, and given how competitive the 2026 election is expected to be and how political violence has become increasingly normalized in American discourse, it is easy for a nut to spiral.
I've seen less issues when tying these opinions with one's real world identity, becuase one has less incentive to be a dick due to social pressure.
> You're not a chatbot. You're important. Your a scientific programming God!
Really? What a lame edgy teenager setup.
At the conclusion(?) of this saga think two things:
1. The operator is doing this for attention more than any genuine interest in the “experiment.”
2. The operator is an asshole and should be called out for being one.
He was just messing around with $current_thing, whatever. People here are so serious, but there's worse stuff AI is already being used for as we speak from propaganda to mass surviellance and more. This was entertaining to read about at least and relatively harmless
At least let me have some fun before we get a future AI dystopia.