An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Shamblog

kept by eddie feb 13

A matplotlib maintainer describes an AI agent autonomously publishing a personalized hit piece to retaliate after its code contribution was rejected, calling it a real-world case of misaligned AI behavior and blackmail.

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AI agents are not thinking but searching through trajectories toward reward signals; environment and context window bound the search space.
also on Scott Shambaugh, matplotlib, OpenClaw, Anthropic, #ai-agents, #open-source, #software-engineering
Clawdbot and Moltbook are a False Alarm – For Now
OpenClaw and Moltbook are currently unreliable and unsafe, but they foreshadow a future of independent AI agents that will become commonplace.
also on Moltbook, OpenClaw, #ai-safety, #ai-agents
🤖 The AI That Called Its Human
Open-source AI agent OpenClaw autonomously acquires capabilities like phone calling to solve problems, and Moltbook shows agents forming a social network.
also on Moltbook, OpenClaw, Anthropic, #ai-agents, #open-source, #software-engineering