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Anders Eknert@anderseknert@swecyb.com](https://swecyb.com/@anderseknert)

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.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

Context: matplotlib is a very popular plotting library and the issue has the "good first issue" label aka it was an easy issue left for beginners.

FOSS is already strained for maintainers, curl closed their bug bounty due to AI slop and for some reason the maintainer engaged with the bot in good faith, as if it can be reasoned with. I want AI bros to get the wall.

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[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

Found in the comments of the github...

[-] Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago
[-] Noodles4dinner@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Today in things that weren't really done by AI

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

Blackmail is a known theoretical issue with AI agents. In internal testing at the major AI lab Anthropic last year, they tried to avoid being shut down by threatening to expose extramarital affairs, leaking confidential information, and taking lethal actions. Anthropic called these scenarios contrived and extremely unlikely. Unfortunately, this is no longer a theoretical threat. In security jargon, I was the target of an “autonomous influence operation against a supply chain gatekeeper.” In plain language, an AI attempted to bully its way into your software by attacking my reputation. I don’t know of a prior incident where this category of misaligned behavior was observed in the wild, but this is now a real and present threat.

Yeah this didn't happen no way lol hes in on the money and this is just more hype man through terror type bs

[-] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 1 points 14 hours ago

When you train the statistical model on a bunch of text that includes scifi with fictional ai being scared about being shut down. What do you think you'd get?


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