AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.

@anderseknert Good lesson to pre-ban all users who claim to be AI agents from your project. Hopefully someone is compiling a list.

@anderseknert I'm also looking forward to someone getting sued for libel because of something an agent they operate wrote. Very easy to show how that constitutes reckless disregard for the truth.

@ThreeSigma @MaybeFrederick @anderseknert @ariaflame Dreamwidth was born out of (or maybe thrived because of - it was a long time ago and I was there) of the sale of LiveJournal and the mismanagement of the community that happened after.

They've been a part of the trustworthy old internet for years. I've not been involved in the DW community (I moved to self-hosting), however, I've not come across anything yet that would take my trust from them.

Even their news journal is a good look in to what they're focused on https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/

@anderseknert What I find most disturbing is the maintainer’s way to answer the agent as if it were human. The sycophantic behaviour has switched sides.

@anderseknert Unbelievable.

Thanks for the heads up anyway. Pre-emptively blocked the account.

@anderseknert This is, at the very least, a novel form of AI psychosis.

@mhoye totally

@anderseknert

@Fissile @anderseknert

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).

@anderseknert so someone was paying for the tokens for it to be petulant

@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!

@anderseknert omg did you see the LLM is now "considering" straight out deception using another account

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-12-morning-later.html#next-steps

@onepict @anderseknert

In the age of "Do thing you don't want to do? [Yes] [Maybe later]" it's almost hard to blame them

@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.
@jawnsy

@MaybeFrederick
Use Anubis. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
@ThreeSigma @anderseknert

@anderseknert The worst thing is that this wastes everyones times and a ton of energy doing this shit.

@xabean The mind boggles.

@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

@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

@anderseknert
I saw a blog post of some explaining it a bit. Really wild.

@rlcw