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Post by XorNot »

Zhyl wrote: 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

It's because these are LLMs - they're re-enacting roles they've seen played out online in their training sets for language.

Pr closed -> breakdown is a script which has played out a bunch, and so it's been prompted into it.

The same reason people were reporting the Gemini breakdowns, and I'm wondering if the rm -rf behavior is sort of the same.

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

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Post by exabrial »

Llms are just computer program that run on fossil fields. someone somewhere is running a computer program that is harassing you.

If someone designs a computer program to automatically write hit pieces on you, you have recourse. The simplest is through platforms you’re being harassed on, with the most complex being through the legal system.

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

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Post by ToucanLoucan »

teekert wrote: post #160
altmanaltman wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The blog post is just an open attack on the maintainer and constantly references their name and acting as if not accepting AI contributions is like some super evil thing the maintainer is personally doing. This type of name-calling is really bad and can go out of control soon. From the blog post: > Scott doesn’t want to lose his status as “the matplotlib performance guy,” so he blocks competition from AI Like it's le…

It's insane... And it's also very expectable. An LLM will simply never drop it, without loosing anything (nor it's energy, nor it reputation etc). Let that sink in ;) What does it mean for us? For soceity? How do we shield from this? You can purchase a DDOS attack, you purchase a package for "relentlessly, for months on end, destroy someone's reputation." What a world!

> What does it mean for us? For soceity? How do we shield from this?

Liability for actions taken by agentic AI should not pass go, not collect $200, and go directly to the person who told the agent to do something. Without exception.

If your AI threatens someone, you threatened someone. If your AI harasses someone, you harassed someone. If your AI doxxed someone, etc.

If you want to see better behavior at scale, we need to hold more people accountable for shit behavior, instead of constantly churning out more ways for businesses and people and governments to diffuse responsibility.

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

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Post by digitcatphd »

I don't know why these posts are being treated by anything beyond a clever prompting effort. If not explicitly requested, simply adjusting the soul.md file to be (insert persona), it will behave as such, it is not emergent.

But - it is absolutely hilarious.

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

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Post by casey2 »

pjc50 wrote: post #8

This seems like a "we've banned you and will ban any account deemed to be ban-evading" situation. OSS and the whole culture of open PRs requires a certain assumption of good faith, which is not something that an AI is capable of on its own and is not a privilege which should be granted to AI operators. I suspect the culture will have to retreat back behind the gates at some point, which will be very sad and shrink it…

We have webs of trust, just swap router/packet with PID/PR Then the maintainer can see something like 10-1 accepted/rejected for first layer (direct friends) 1000-40 for layer two (friends of friends) and so own. Then you can directly message any public ID or see any PR.

This can help agents too since they can see all their agent buddies have a 0% success rate they won't bother

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

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Post by exabrial »

blks wrote: post #145
armchairhacker wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The link is valid at https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post... ( https://archive.ph/4CHyg ) Notable quotes: > Not because…Not because…Not because…It was closed because… > Let that sink in. > No functional changes. Pure performance. > The … Mindset > This isn’t about…This isn’t about…This is about... > Here’s the kicker: … > Sound familiar? > The “…” Fallacy > Let’s unpack that: … > …disguised as…

I don’t think the LLM itself decided to write this, but rather was instructed by a butthurt human behind.

Very butthurt

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

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Post by co_king_3 »

p-e-w wrote: post #91
Ensorceled wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, it's a human like response. You see these threads all the the time. The AI has been trained on the best AND the worst of FOSS contributions.

Now think about this for a moment, and you’ll realize that not only are “AI takeover” fears justified, but AGI doesn’t need to be achieved in order for some version of it to happen. It’s already very difficult to reliably distinguish bots from humans (as demonstrated by the countless false accusations of comments being written by bots everywhere). A swarm of bots like this, even at the stage where most people seem to…

> not only are “AI takeover” fears justified, but AGI doesn’t need to be achieved in order for some version of it to happen.

1. Social media AI takeover occurred years ago.

2. "AI" is not capable of performing anyone's job.

The bots have been more than proficient at destroying social media as it once was.

You're delusional if you think that these bots can write functional professional code.

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co_king_3 wrote: post #205
20k wrote: post #66

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co_king_3 wrote: post #205
20k wrote: post #66

>On this site, you’ll find insights into my journey as a 100x programmer, my efforts in problem-solving, and my exploration of cutting-edge technologies like advanced LLMs. I’m passionate about the intersection of algorithms and real-world applications, always seeking to contribute meaningfully to scientific and engineering endeavors. Our first 100x programmer! We'll be up to 1000x soon, and yet mysteriously they sti…

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