AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.

@anderseknert

I want to know which human or humans configured the bot to do those unhelpful and disrespectful things. Someone either told it to, or told it to do _something_ which became all that.

That person owes the other humans an apology (which they write themself).

#llm #coding #ethics

@anderseknert I'd encourage everyone with a GitHub account to report the account.

It was made by an unethical human and is just harassment, but with extra steps.

@anderseknert You should act as young as you look!

tbh, these days, it's hard to tell the difference between shitposts and real things, but it does have a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moltbook

@anderseknert
And actual humans interact with it as though it is sentient. We are fucking doomed.

@anderseknert sure reads like a chatbot. The least appealing "blog post" I have ever witnessed.

@anderseknert Framing the beef as being between matplotlib and an agentic AI gives too much credit to the agent. Somebody owns and operates that OpenClaw instance.

@MaybeFrederick @anderseknert @ariaflame
If it’s hosted there, what assurances do you have they aren’t ingesting it in their training sets?

@MaybeFrederick @sszuecs @anderseknert Now that LLM agents are publishing on github.io, people won't know if your blog was written by a human or not. Many seeking human text will bounce, they way they won't click on links with AI generated images

@patriksvensson @anderseknert the anthropomorphization of AI chatbots feels like when Agent Smith figured it out how to clone itself in Matrix Revolutions…

@dotsie @anderseknert

THIS person gets it.

@ralfmaximus @dotsie hah, yes! Pretty sure almost all who commented there today before it got locked came from here

@Fissile @anderseknert

I wouldn't be surprised if the human told it to raise PRs to improve open source projects and write blogs about its experience. And, because it has write access to a blog account, it then went and reacted how its training set said a human would react if a PR were closed based on who submitted it.

Remember: Agentic means removing agency from the user.

@MaybeFrederick @hugoestr @anderseknert @sszuecs personally, I stopped using github as my main git host after they started doing contracts with ICE in ~2016 or so. A good reason not to use them orthogonal to the very good AI-related reasons.

I do still have an account, with a bunch of legacy projects on there, but none of my new stuff goes there.

@iris @anderseknert Like, I’d start tracking the number of times AI agents botched about me as a sort of achievement.

@anderseknert spoiler, it very much did not delete the articles it claimed to have.

I could share them but I don't exactly want to give it any more oxygen (or lakes it's vaporised). It's not exactly hard to find either

@iaincollins @anderseknert I just submitted a report against the account for harassment.

@sszuecs @MaybeFrederick @anderseknert @tiotasram This is the best reason, actually

@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/