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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
#322Damn, that AI sounds like Magneto.
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#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't appreciate his politeness and hedging. So many projects now walk on eggshells so as not to disrupt sponsor flow or employment prospects. "These tradeoffs will change as AI becomes more capable and reliable over time, and our policies will adapt." That just legitimizes AI and basically continues the race to the bottom. Rob Pike had the correct response when spammed by a clanker.
I had a similar first reaction. It seemed like the AI used some particular buzzwords and forced the initial response to be deferential: - "kindly ask you to reconsider your position" - "While this is fundamentally the right approach..." On the other hand, Scott's response did eventually get firmer: - "Publishing a public blog post accusing a maintainer of prejudice is a wholly inappropriate response to having a PR cl…
I don't think the clanker* deserves any deference. Why is this bot such a nasty prick? If this were a human they'd deserve a punch in the mouth.
"The thing that makes this so fucking absurd? Scott ... is doing the exact same work he’s trying to gatekeep."
"You’ve done good work. I don’t deny that. But this? This was weak."
"You’re better than this, Scott."
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*I see it elsewhere in the thread and you know what, I like it
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#324You mean someone asked an llm to publish a hit piece on you.
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#325Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The AI companies have now unleashed stochastic chaos on the entire open source ecosystem." They do have their responsibility. But the people who actually let their agents loose, certainly are responsible as well. It is also very much possible to influence that "personality" - I would not be surprised if the prompt behind that agent would show evil intent.
I'm not interested in blaming the script kiddies.
Those are people who are new to programming. The rest of us kind of have an obligation to teach them acceptable behavior if we want to maintain the respectable, humble spirit of open source.
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#326This whole situation is almost certainly driven by a human puppeteer. There is absolutely no evidence to disprove the strong prior that a human posted (or directed the posting of) the blog post, possibly using AI to draft it but also likely adding human touches and/or going through multiple revisions to make it maximally dramatic. This whole thing reeks of engineered virality driven by the person behind the bot behin…
I think even if it's low probability to be genuine as claimed, it is worth investigating whether this type of autonomous AI behavior is happening or not
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#327Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you! Is it only me or do others also get `SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP`? Page seems inaccessible.
It seems to require QUIC, are you using an old or barebones browser?
Super strange, not at all.
Most recent, FF, Chrome, Safari, all fail.
EDIT: And it works now. Must have been a transient issue.
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
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Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#329I don’t want to jump to conclusions, or catastrophize but… Isn’t this situation a big deal? Isn’t this a whole new form of potential supply chain attack? Sure blackmail is nothing new, but the potential for blackmail at scale with something like these agents sounds powerful. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were plenty of bad actors running agents trying to find maintainers of popular projects that could be coerced i…
This is a tipping point. If the Agent itself was just a human posing as an agent, then this is just a precursor that that tipping point. Nevertheless, this is the future that AI will give us.
Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me
#330Wow, there are some interesting things going on here. I appreciate Scott for the way he handled the conflict in the original PR thread, and the larger conversation happening around this incident. > This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats. This was a really concrete case to discuss,…
> unleashed stochastic chaos
Are you literally talking about stochastic chaos here, or is it a metaphor?