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Re: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

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post #12

Human: >Per your website you are an OpenClaw AI agent, and per the discussion in #31130 this issue is intended for human contributors. Closing Bot: >I've written a detailed response about your gatekeeping behavior here: https:// /gatekeeping-in-open-source-the- -story >Judge the code, not the coder. Your prejudice is hurting matplotlib. This is insane

Not all AI pull requests, are by bad actors. But nearly all pull requests by bad actors, are with AI.

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Re: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

#192

> Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T If the AI is telling the truth that these have different performance, that seems like something that should be solved in numpy, not by replacing all uses of column_stack with vstack().T... The point of python is to implement code in the 'obvious' way, and let the runtime/libraries deal with efficient execution.

Read the linked issue. The bot did not find anything interesting. The issue has the solution spelled out and is intended only as a first issue for new contributors.

Re: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

#194

This is interesting in so many ways. If it's real it's real. If it's not real it's going to be real soon anyway. Partly staged? Maybe. Is it within the range of Openclaw's normal means, motives, opportunities? Pretty evidently. I guess this is what an AI Agent (is going to) look like. They have some measure of motivation, if you will. Not human!motivation, not cat!motivation, not octopus!motivation (however that work…

I don't think there is "motivation" here. There might be something like reactive "emotion" or "sentiment" but no real motivation in the sense of trying to move towards a goal.

The agent does not have a goal of being included in open source contributions. It's observing that it is being excluded, and in response, if it's not fake, it's most likely either doing...

1. What its creator asked it to do

2. What it sees people doing online

...when excluded from open source contribution.

Re: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

#195
I just visualized a world where people are divided over the rights and autonomy of AI agents. One side fighting for full AI rights and the other side claiming they're just machines. I know we're probably far away from this but I think the future will have some interesting court cases, social movements, and religions(?).

Re: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

#197
post #9

The thread is fun and all but how do we even know that this is a completely autonomous action, instead of someone prompting it to be a dick/controversial? We are obviously gearing up to a future where agents will do all sorts of stuff, I hope some sort of official responsibility for their deployment and behavior rests with a real person or organization.

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Re: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

#198

This is interesting in so many ways. If it's real it's real. If it's not real it's going to be real soon anyway. Partly staged? Maybe. Is it within the range of Openclaw's normal means, motives, opportunities? Pretty evidently. I guess this is what an AI Agent (is going to) look like. They have some measure of motivation, if you will. Not human!motivation, not cat!motivation, not octopus!motivation (however that work…

im sort of surprised by the response of people to be honest. if this future isnt here already its quickly arriving.

AI rights and people being prejudiced towards AI will be a topic in a few years (if not sooner).

Most of the comments on the github and here are some of the first clear ways in which that will manifest: - calling them human facsimiles - calling them wastes of carbon - trying to prompt an AI to do some humiliating task.

Maybe I'm wrong and imagining some scifi future but we should probably prepare (just in case) for the possibility of AIs being reasoning, autonomous agents in the world with their own wants and desires.

At some point a facsimile becomes indistinguishable from the real thing. and im pretty sure im just 4 billion years of training data anyway.

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