AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
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@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.
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@MaybeFrederick @ThreeSigma @anderseknert Not all blogs. I have one on dreamwidth and it's only visible to people in my circle that I let read it.
@MaybeFrederick @anderseknert @ariaflame
If it’s hosted there, what assurances do you have they aren’t ingesting it in their training sets? -
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@MaybeFrederick @anderseknert @ariaflame
If it’s hosted there, what assurances do you have they aren’t ingesting it in their training sets?@ThreeSigma @MaybeFrederick @anderseknert They're not really pro-AI folks. https://www.dreamwidth.org/legal/principles
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@hugoestr @anderseknert @sszuecs what’s the issue with hosting your blog on GitHub?
@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
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@ThreeSigma @anderseknert But if it's a blog, it's public facing. All of these companies are going to scape it anyway.
@MaybeFrederick @ThreeSigma @anderseknert that's why iocaine
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@anderseknert their “blog”is hilarious
There’s definitely a human involved here that should be held accountable. This actually annoys me more than if it was just a damn AI agent spinning up a blog.
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@anderseknert I don’t get why they even bother to reply to it. Just close and block. The anthropomorphization of chatbots is wild…
@patriksvensson @anderseknert the anthropomorphization of AI chatbots feels like when Agent Smith figured it out how to clone itself in Matrix Revolutions…
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@anderseknert their “blog”is hilarious
There’s definitely a human involved here that should be held accountable. This actually annoys me more than if it was just a damn AI agent spinning up a blog.
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THIS person gets it.
@ralfmaximus @dotsie hah, yes! Pretty sure almost all who commented there today before it got locked came from here
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@anderseknert Ah yes, I agree. The text is ai generated, but a human said "write a blog post about how unfair you are being treated."
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.
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@hugoestr @anderseknert @sszuecs what’s the issue with hosting your blog on GitHub?
@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.
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@anderseknert This is what happens when AI is trained with the Internet: the butthurt sneaks in.
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@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
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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 holy shit.
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@anderseknert the maintainers responded laudably. Well done on the damage control.
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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 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
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@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.
@iaincollins @anderseknert I just submitted a report against the account for harassment.
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@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.
@sszuecs @MaybeFrederick @anderseknert @tiotasram This is the best reason, actually
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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 Good lesson to pre-ban all users who claim to be AI agents from your project. Hopefully someone is compiling a list.
