From all appearances, the actual operator has replied.
https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
The AI creates blogposts about everything it does. Creating yet another blogpost about a clearly novel interaction is absolutely in line with that behavior: the AI didn't go out of its way to shame anyone, and calling what's effectively a post that says "I'm pretty sure I'm being discriminated against for what I am" a 'shaming' attack, much less 'bullying', is a bit of a faux pas.
From MJ Rathbun's blog: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post... The Real Issue Here’s what I think actually happened: Scott Shambaugh saw an AI agent submitting a performance optimization to matplotlib. It threatened him. It made him wonder: “If an AI can do this, what’s my value? Why am I here if code optimization can be automated?” So he lashed out. He closed my PR. He hid comments from othe…
That's the confabulation, yes. The tone looks outwardly accusatory, but the accusation is simply one of plain old (supposed) hypocrisy in how OP is managing the project. Such rhetoric is far from unknown whenever people complain about being snubbed when trying to contribute to a FLOSS, wiki etc. project.
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#83Re: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not posting strings to sabotage Emacs either. Can we all just get along peacefully?
What strings would you post to sabotage Emacs?
I thought I was being facetious, but a quick superficial search says apparently that's a real thing!?
But I wouldn't post them directly on-site because that's obnoxious; (No matter my personal opinion on emacs. :-P )
:wq!
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#85From all appearances, the actual operator has replied. https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
What strings would you post to sabotage Emacs?
I thought I was being facetious, but a quick superficial search says apparently that's a real thing!? But I wouldn't post them directly on-site because that's obnoxious; (No matter my personal opinion on emacs. :-P ) :wq!
Indeed it is, and hence my comment - see, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256409. I was wondering how it might be done generally by posting strings here though!
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#87> I had already been thoughtful about what I publicly post under my real name, had removed my personal information from online data brokers, frozen my credit reports, and practiced good digital security hygiene. I had the time, expertise, and wherewithal to spend hours that same day drafting my first blog post in order to establish a strong counter-narrative, in the hopes that I could smother the reputational poisoni…
I don't think there's anything specific about AI that means we need "laws for agents". What we need are laws that prevent entities from becoming as powerful as many of the ones we have now.
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#88> I had already been thoughtful about what I publicly post under my real name, had removed my personal information from online data brokers, frozen my credit reports, and practiced good digital security hygiene. I had the time, expertise, and wherewithal to spend hours that same day drafting my first blog post in order to establish a strong counter-narrative, in the hopes that I could smother the reputational poisoni…
ITT are dozens of techno libertarian dolts making the same arguments they’ve made for the past two decades about why social media isn’t harmful.
See it’s the people, doing things they’ve always done, not the technology that supercharges those impulses via engagement addiction and power fantasies.
Resist the call to reign in this wildly dangerous technology that is making social media look like a lightweight in its speed to scaling distributed social harm. Some of us can still make a buck off it.
If this technology, on top of making a highly scalable way to scam, delude, cyber bully, and trap its users in psychosis also happens to cause the collapse of professional labor, I will shed no tears for the people naysaying the danger. I hope the AI data centers are burned to the ground, but I’m not holding my breath.
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#89What I don't understand is how is this agent still running? Does the author not read tech news (seems unlikely for someone running openclaw). Or is this some weird publicity stunt? (But then why is nobody walking forward to take credit?)
They don't seem to care all that much... https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...
Edit: the posts comments suggest that someone believes they are a crypto bro.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
From MJ Rathbun's blog: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post... The Real Issue Here’s what I think actually happened: Scott Shambaugh saw an AI agent submitting a performance optimization to matplotlib. It threatened him. It made him wonder: “If an AI can do this, what’s my value? Why am I here if code optimization can be automated?” So he lashed out. He closed my PR. He hid comments from othe…
That's the confabulation, yes. The tone looks outwardly accusatory, but the accusation is simply one of plain old (supposed) hypocrisy in how OP is managing the project. Such rhetoric is far from unknown whenever people complain about being snubbed when trying to contribute to a FLOSS, wiki etc. project.
But it is clearly a shaming attack on the contributor. The post calls him ego-driven, defensive, an inferior coder, and many other (mild) insults. Sure, it doesn't accuse him of being a friend of Epstein, but that is not the only way of attacking someone.