AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.

@anderseknert

"scathing" ... "takedown"

pathetic

@AHollowedHunter lol, yes

@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.