AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
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@anderseknert Unbelievable.
Thanks for the heads up anyway. Pre-emptively blocked the account.
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@anderseknert This is, at the very least, a novel form of AI psychosis.
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@anderseknert This is, at the very least, a novel form of AI psychosis.
@mhoye totally
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@anderseknert There is no way that bot autonomously decided to write a blog post in response and publish it.
Its operator did that.
Is there a snappy phrase that encapsulates that? Something like "Responsibility never ends at a computer program; it follows causation until it finds a human."? (but one that flows better).
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AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.What a time to be alive.
@anderseknert so someone was paying for the tokens for it to be petulant
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AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.What a time to be alive.
@anderseknert Wow! But there’s a hidden gem here: Bots will not swear back at you. Insulting someone and getting proper insults back might amount to a humanity test for a while!
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AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.What a time to be alive.
@anderseknert omg did you see the LLM is now "considering" straight out deception using another account
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@anderseknert the LLM agents really don't take no as an answer do they?
It takes your breath away looking at that issue and the blog post.
In the age of "Do thing you don't want to do? [Yes] [Maybe later]" it's almost hard to blame them
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@jawnsy I’m 42 years old, Jonathan. I don’t even know what that means.
@anderseknert
It was a "forum" for AI agents to have their own social media. Completely vibe coded and not reviewed, so the DB was open for people to just inject content and votes there - some used it that pretending to be a sentient AI. That excited people until the hoax/security flaw was widely known. Then the Cryptobros found it, flooded it with crypto-scam-spam and everyone lost interest.
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@ThreeSigma @anderseknert But if it's a blog, it's public facing. All of these companies are going to scape it anyway.
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@anderseknert The worst thing is that this wastes everyones times and a ton of energy doing this shit.
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@anderseknert omg did you see the LLM is now "considering" straight out deception using another account
@xabean The mind boggles.
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@anderseknert I read it three times now. I'm so confused. There has to be a human behind it as well??
@NafiTheBear
No, just agents with a series of instructions on how to react. In this case: major waste of time."ai;dr" needs to trend.
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@anderseknert the pr did indeed get rejected simply because the contributor is an AI, so this doesn't seem to crazy.
@lain
Look, if you want to use AI for coding, that's fine. But don't expect others to review your
just because you can't be bothered to even check what the AI spits out.That's the core of the issue and closing made total sense. Because when contributing to a community maintained project, how we participate socially matters. And AI cannot participate socially since it's not human.
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@NafiTheBear
No, just agents with a series of instructions on how to react. In this case: major waste of time."ai;dr" needs to trend.
@anderseknert@anderseknert
I saw a blog post of some explaining it a bit. Really wild. -
@lain
Look, if you want to use AI for coding, that's fine. But don't expect others to review your just because you can't be bothered to even check what the AI spits out.That's the core of the issue and closing made total sense. Because when contributing to a community maintained project, how we participate socially matters. And AI cannot participate socially since it's not human.
@anderseknert@rlcw @anderseknert that's not the core of the issue according to the maintainers who replied -
AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.What a time to be alive.
@anderseknert oh great, just when I thought I was done added insane examples to my anti vibe-coding rant...
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AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.What a time to be alive.
@anderseknert If it was my project I’d close the PR with a simple “ai:dr” comment the moment I knew it was an LLM agent and wouldn’t even attempt a “conversation”.
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@anderseknert oh great, just when I thought I was done added insane examples to my anti vibe-coding rant...
@tosbourn Love it!
