AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
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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
Yeah, it's weird and I have no idea how Scott came to the (correct) conclusion this is an AI agent -
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.
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@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.
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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 @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/
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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 What I find most disturbing is the maintainer’s way to answer the agent as if it were human. The sycophantic behaviour has switched sides.
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@anderseknert Unbelievable.
Thanks for the heads up anyway. Pre-emptively blocked the account.
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@anderseknert This is, at the very least, a novel form of AI psychosis.
@mhoye totally
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