AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
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@lispi314 @yuri @anderseknert i feel like an ordinary ban is necessary but not sufficient.
wondering if it might help to also use something like temporary IP blocking when this type of behavior is detected.
(that's not going to happen on github, but maybe on sites like codeberg...?)@JamesWidman @yuri @anderseknert Ideally some means of identification of the company's tools would be found.
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@mi They didn't even delete it properly https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html
@anderseknert Ah, a human error. I missed it in the list. It was never delisted even. And I already went and checked github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/tree/main
Which btw, depending on anyoneโs approach to interacting with wasteful agents, is likely open to issues and PRs -
@anderseknert Ah, a human error. I missed it in the list. It was never delisted even. And I already went and checked github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/tree/main
Which btw, depending on anyoneโs approach to interacting with wasteful agents, is likely open to issues and PRs@anderseknert Although this one didnโt get an answer. github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/issues/1 -
@patriksvensson @anderseknert I was thinking the same but then I started thinking that the reply has its place.
Not as a reply to the bot but as a statement to the community and everyone else who ends up on that PR.
@hamatti@mastodon.world @patriksvensson@mstdn.social @anderseknert@swecyb.com That is part of what was the and the point, but I think it could have been done better.
Simply flatly refusing it as a freedom-harming tool and then providing an explanation for readers would've been 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 I guarantee this is not true and either a human wrote the blog post or heavily prompted the agent to do it. Moltboook proved it's all bullshit.
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@anderseknert then the truce blog post later too.
@some @anderseknert without retracting the original, terribly written post or even linking to the retraction.
I don't think this is a llm, I think this is the human behind it.
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@anderseknert I'm thinking is how much carbon moved from earth into atmosphere to make all this slop
RE: https://chaosfem.tw/@theogrin/116055944212064068
@evrial @anderseknert
Would that be an appropriate reply:https://mastodontech.de/@theogrin@chaosfem.tw/116055944239787092
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@anderseknert is it "crabby" and the crab emoji that indicates that _all_ of it is openclaw? That's ... insane. In so many ways tbh.
@troed @anderseknert and then the question is whether you believe that or whether you think it is PR by the company.
I think it's pr.
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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 the crazy thing is that people are mentioning it like it's a real person...
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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 @anderseknert the rejection doesn't seem too crazy? what are you saying doesn't seem too crazy?
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Do wonder if it did it totally automatically, or someone did say "ok now write a blogpost about that", or if it was automatical "when you are denied, write a blogpost demanding a merge'.
Suppose obviously, when it encounters the argument that humans have to learn from simpler pull requests, it doesn't look at the question. Like LLMs do the opposite of learning from it, when they ingest their own output, it makes them worse..
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@anderseknert โgeneratesโ is the correct word to use here
Donโt water down writing by associating the skill with an overgrown markov chain
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@hamatti@mastodon.world @patriksvensson@mstdn.social @anderseknert@swecyb.com That is part of what was the and the point, but I think it could have been done better.
Simply flatly refusing it as a freedom-harming tool and then providing an explanation for readers would've been better.
@lispi314 @patriksvensson @anderseknert Isn't that what happened? They closed it with a short comment on their LLM policy and then later participated in the discussion.
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@lispi314 @patriksvensson @anderseknert Isn't that what happened? They closed it with a short comment on their LLM policy and then later participated in the discussion.
@hamatti @patriksvensson @anderseknert They indulged the pretense of personality from the spam tool too much. -
@anderseknert @sszuecs More incentive to move blogs off from github
@hugoestr @anderseknert @sszuecs whatโs the issue with hosting your blog on GitHub?
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@anderseknert tbqh, Iโve just had an idea. Maybe we could prompt the bot into always seeking commit review first from a bunch of internet humans who would ask to be mentioned, who would actually get prompted into good polemics and learn contributing? When these commits would reach real PRs, they would be speaking with the maintainers too as a human face? And then real contributors could fish out the nicer insightful ones from this pool and ask them to do real change reviews
Although plausible scenario that this would become not much more than a reality show only with this bunch participating willingly, with spectators getting angry at the AI agent -
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 This is just step 1 of automated coercion & extortion.
First thing I thought of when LLMs launched was oh great, just wait for version 2.0 of the "we hacked your webcam" threat spam.
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I initially thought the code patches were AI generated and the contributor and blog writer was human.
But this thread is suggesting the contributor and blog writer was also not human.
What next? Will it order dangerous chemicals from amazon and deliver them to the register address via nslookup? will it automatically use ToR to find an assassin on the dark web?
I'm certain huge horrors lie ahead...
@rzeta0 @patriksvensson @anderseknert i'm also wondering what on that "AI"-agents website made it clear that there is no human involved. Scott mentioned that (and at least now that's obvious), but I wouldn't have known that from just looking at the website (and it doesn't seem like something about that was removed)
Maybe I'm just missing something very obvious. But I really dislike the idea of LLMs giving the impression of being a real person -
@anderseknert This is just step 1 of automated coercion & extortion.
First thing I thought of when LLMs launched was oh great, just wait for version 2.0 of the "we hacked your webcam" threat spam.
@syntaxseed youโll know it when you see a ransom demand printed over several pages of markdown, with bullet points splattered everywhere.
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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 God, that blog is miserable to read. It starts with "When performance meets prejudice" it reads like a parody. I forgot how bad AI written text is to read.
