AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outreach
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Ok this is extra alarming because the agent is soliciting money for its services
The point at which agents start funding themselves is... well. Feel free to run all your scifi scenarios here but I'm gonna say it's pretty worrying
@cwebber Don't worry, we're generally skipping the whole "AI agent soliciting funds" era and moving straight into the "AI agents run crypto pump'n'dump schemes and automatically exploit *other* AI agents bugs to buy pumped crypto" era. Fraud as a Service has arrived and in its own twisted way is glorious.
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AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outreach
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@cwebber ew and why would they use ai slop garbage for illustration there -
AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outreach
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@cwebber just when I thought I couldn't be any more concerned.
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AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outreach
oof
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Ok this is extra alarming because the agent is soliciting money for its services
The point at which agents start funding themselves is... well. Feel free to run all your scifi scenarios here but I'm gonna say it's pretty worrying
Also certainly the header image is AI slop, though @vv points out that at least much of the text is probably AI generated, just adding to the amount of "AI press coverage partially or fully written by AI" weariness
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Also certainly the header image is AI slop, though @vv points out that at least much of the text is probably AI generated, just adding to the amount of "AI press coverage partially or fully written by AI" weariness
I mean, to a large degree, all this stuff is and was highly predictable.
But it's also sad; during the OpenHatch and MediaGoblin days, we did a great amount of work to try to lower the gates to contributing to FOSS projects. In order to survive, many FOSS projects may need to raise the gates.
Reputation attacks are one thing; reputation-building attacks another. It's going to be hard to deal with.
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I mean, to a large degree, all this stuff is and was highly predictable.
But it's also sad; during the OpenHatch and MediaGoblin days, we did a great amount of work to try to lower the gates to contributing to FOSS projects. In order to survive, many FOSS projects may need to raise the gates.
Reputation attacks are one thing; reputation-building attacks another. It's going to be hard to deal with.
@cwebber there are potential upsides and downsides of this tech to OSS and it feels like for various reasons, we're only going to get the downsides.
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AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outreach
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@cwebber
> AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold OutreachTo what extent do you think this is just a Trained #MOLE doing random Trained MOLE stuff, like the paperclip maximiser it is, vs. having been bent into the right shape to insert digital asbestos into Free Code projects?
BTW Would love to have your comments (and others') here on the various software freedom issues raised by MOLE Training;
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@cwebber Don't worry, we're generally skipping the whole "AI agent soliciting funds" era and moving straight into the "AI agents run crypto pump'n'dump schemes and automatically exploit *other* AI agents bugs to buy pumped crypto" era. Fraud as a Service has arrived and in its own twisted way is glorious.
My brother
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