https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
This is a terrifying piece about what #OpenClaw has unleashed with its #agentic “ #ai” bots. Scott is a volunteer maintainer for #matplotlib, #python’s go-to plotting library. An agent tied to merge code, and Scott said no. The agent, apparently autonomously, proceeded to attempt to blackmail Scott, and when that didn’t work started posting hallucinations attacking Scott.
His lead in to the article: 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 accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.
This nonsense needs to be nipped in the bud.
