Going from an earlier post on HN about humans being behind Moltbook posts, I would not be surprised if the Hit Piece was created by a human who used an AI prompt to generate the pages.
An AI agent published a hit piece on me
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Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#32The 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…
Well, after today's incidents I decided that none of my personal output will be public. I'll still license them appropriately, but I'll not even announce their existence anymore. I was doing this for fun, and sharing with the hopes that someone would find them useful, but sorry. The well is poisoned now, and I don't my outputs to be part of that well, because anything put out with well intentions is turned into more…
Well, well, well, seems you're onto something here.
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#33The 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...
It’s not my bot.
You sure?
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#34Here's one of the problems in this brave new world of anyone being able to publish, without knowing the author personally (which I don't), there's no way to tell without some level of faith or trust that this isn't a false-flag operation. There are three possible scenarios: 1. The OP 'ran' the agent that conducted the original scenario, and then published this blog post for attention. 2. Some person (not the OP) legi…
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Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#35The 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...
It’s not my bot.
But this was you, right?
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31138
I guess you were putting up the same PR the LLM did?
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#36Well, this has absolutely decided me on not allowing AI agents anywhere near my open source project. Jesus, this is creepy as hell, yo.
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#37In the near future, we will all look back at this incident as the first time an agent wrote a hit piece against a human. I'm sure it will soon be normalized to the extent that hit pieces will be generated for us every time our PR, romantic or sexual advance, job application, or loan application is rejected.
What an amazing time.
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#38Here's one of the problems in this brave new world of anyone being able to publish, without knowing the author personally (which I don't), there's no way to tell without some level of faith or trust that this isn't a false-flag operation. There are three possible scenarios: 1. The OP 'ran' the agent that conducted the original scenario, and then published this blog post for attention. 2. Some person (not the OP) legi…
This is a great point and the reason why I steer away from Internet drama like this. We simply cannot know the truth from the information readily available. Digging further might produce something, (see the Discord Leaks doc), but it requires energy that most people won't (arguably shouldn't) spend uncovering the truth.
Dead internet theory isn't a theory anymore.
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#39Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#40Serious question, how did you know it was an AI agent ?
That, or I also wonder if this may be a prank or a hoax.