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

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 Forgive me citing myself in this, but I posted 20 minutes ago about how LLMs erode all competitive advantage.

I am truly flummoxed by all AI grifts. We all have access so how long can you keep that grift to yourself? So you built a layer on top of the AI for the grift machine. Well guess what, I asked Claude to build my own grift layer and now I have one.

https://mastodon.geniodiabolico.synology.me/@geniodiabolico/116086524282557676

@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.

@cwebber ew and why would they use ai slop garbage for illustration there

@cwebber just when I thought I couldn't be any more concerned.

@cwebber who in the world says

6+ merged PRs to the OpenClaw codebase.

6+? You mean like ....7? Lol

@domo @cwebber 6 and possibly more unknown?

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.

@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.

@vorboyvo @domo @cwebber six and a quarter

@cwebber
> AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach

To 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;

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/f-droid-policy-on-libre-ai/

#AI #SoftwareFreedom

@wordshaper @cwebber

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