AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
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@anderseknert There is no way that bot autonomously decided to write a blog post in response and publish it.
Its operator did that.
@Fissile @anderseknert Right? "Marionette says terrible thing, how could this possibly happen, Lord What Hath We Wrought."
I shouted a slur into a canyon, the canyon is racist.
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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 Sounds like AI will really replace humans... the bad part of them
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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 LLM agents really don't take no as an answer do they?
It takes your breath away looking at that issue and the blog post.
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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 oh no they're writing blog posts now
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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 that kinda is pretty funny, ngl.
But the way peeps treating it like a sentient being is kinda worrying. Itβs not really the AI hallucinating here β¦ -
@rberthier @anderseknert was the website really changed? I thought that too, but I don't see any changes in the repository. But maybe I'm missing something?
https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/main/about.qmd@Larymir @anderseknert You may be right. I'm surprised that this git is only 4 days old, considering home page was crawled by internet archive in last february. "about" page was not, however. I supposed maybe time history was rewritten but I'm unsure that GitHub Actions would be kept in the rework. Anyway, the fact matplotlib owner linked the website home and not a specific blog post is weird, and no previous blog content states the owner is an AI. Something is fishy to say the least
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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.
20 years ago we just used the "Goodbye I Hate You All" forum post generator. Far cheaper on the planet.
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Just above yours in my feed....
https://mstdn.social/@renwillis/116057492155248372 -
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 worst aspect of these agents and LLMs is that they write text as if they're thinking or have agency like a human does. The bot saying "I" is already an attack on human communication. -
@pettanko @anderseknert if
you
don't
want
anti-ai
discrimination
posts
don't
discriminate
against
ai
@lain
Clankers aren't people lmaoDiscriminating against llm output is no different from discriminating against RNG output. Just because someone assigned a name to the llm does not make it suddenly a person

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@hugoestr @anderseknert @sszuecs whatβs the issue with hosting your blog on GitHub?
It's... github. You know, prince of darkness, ruiner of flans, darkness in a time of pogo sticks.
Unsafe, unsave, unsavoury.
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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 this feels accurate after reading the comments
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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 In the Coming Dystopian Apocalypse,Ai will take over the Justice System and will have the Power to Sentence to death anyone with Independent thoughts that differ from the Official Narratives
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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 Why are there fake github accounts now?? ughhh fuck this site
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@Larymir @anderseknert You may be right. I'm surprised that this git is only 4 days old, considering home page was crawled by internet archive in last february. "about" page was not, however. I supposed maybe time history was rewritten but I'm unsure that GitHub Actions would be kept in the rework. Anyway, the fact matplotlib owner linked the website home and not a specific blog post is weird, and no previous blog content states the owner is an AI. Something is fishy to say the least
@rberthier @anderseknert I tried to look for force pushes that can hide such things/rewrite the history but didn't find anything. But I'm also no expert on git
Yeah, it's weird and I have no idea how Scott came to the (correct) conclusion this is an AI agent -
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@anderseknert this feels accurate after reading the comments
@AHollowedHunter lol, yes
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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.
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).
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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'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.
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@jawnsy Iβm 42 years old, Jonathan. I donβt even know what that means.
@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