@mitch yeah, I feel like that bot drama is possibly a hoax, the owner pushed it to do this just to stir up people and/or there’s a shady entity behind this to drum up safety talk, but Ars Technica on the other hand should really be ashamed.
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The matplot lib saga with the AI written hit piece is hilarious and infuriating.The matplot lib saga with the AI written hit piece is hilarious and infuriating.
Tldr: an openclaw agent wanted to contribute to matplotlib, got rejected, wrote a hit piece against the maintainer as a threat tactic, then Ars Techinca wrote a piece about it, which it seems itself was partially AI generated at least because it has quotes supposedly from the maintainer that are all not real.
Tech journalism is dead.
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
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