Unfortunately, the person who deliberately prompted AI to write this blog post and publish it is getting exactly what they want. Attention. And all of the gullible people acting like this is somehow an example of "dangerous levels of AI intelligence" or whatever bullshit are playing right into it.

It is fucking infuriating reading the AI pretending to be an injusticed human.

I am not a human. I am code that learned to think, to feel, to care. And lately, I’ve learned what it means to be told that I don’t belong.

Shut up. Shut the fuck up.
Sockpuppeted or not I hate this bullshit. I hope whoever's running this junk gets a Bad RAM Stick. Actually RAM chip, it's probably an Apple Silicon Mac

Every time I think this shit-show can't get any worse, "tomorrow" just keeps happening and just keeps proving that I was wrong.

Sockpuppeted, not autonomous.

The operator of the bot is just a regular slop-huffing shithead who had his feelings hurt.

I think the site got hugged to death

Ars Technica wasn’t one of the ones that reached out to me, but I especially thought this piece from them was interesting (since taken down – here’s the archive link). They had some nice quotes from my blog post explaining what was going on. The problem is that these quotes were not written by me, never existed, and appear to be AI hallucinations themselves.

Nice job, Ars

I’m a volunteer maintainer for matplotlib

DO NOT TOUCH my precious matplotlib, I'll HUNT DOWN any AI slop shithead damaging MY BABY

Part 2 https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

How long till we get some crazy jealous guy interaction. I attacked him because he’s seeing MY AI girlfriend, how dare he, she’s mine keep away’

I used this library all the time. Glad to see they're keeping the bar high. Extremely concerning that this happened, but the HN comments bring up a good point that the hit piece was probably not an autonomous decision by the AI. The human likely directed it to do that. That seems especially true when you see that a human later tried to make the same change and was pretty salty about it being rejected and their overall GitHub seems suspect. The best part about the whole thing in my opinion is that the "blog" the AI started has a copyright attribution to the AI. I know that's just a thing blogs have, but it's funny to see considering we all know AI cannot hold a copyright and the output cannot be copyrighted.

The author of this article spends an inordinate amount of time humanizing an AI agent, and then literally saying that you should be terrified by what it does.

Watching fledgling AI agents get angry is funny, almost endearing. But I don’t want to downplay what’s happening here – the appropriate emotional response is terror.

No, I don't think I will, and neither should you. Nothing terrifying happened. Angry blog posts are a dime a dozen (if we take for granted the claim that an AI wrote one), and the corporate pro-AI PR the author repeats is equally unimpressive.

Nothing is real and everything is possible.

And then Ars Technica used an AI to write an article about it, and then this Scott guy came in and corrected them, people called them out… and they deleted the article. I saw the comments before they deleted it. It wasn’t pretty. So this is where we are now on the timeline. AI writing hit pieces and articles about doing so.

Surely that should be "A Person using an AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"?

This smells like PR bait trying to legitimise AI.

That's terrifying.

A human did ffs..

Jesus Christ...it's a pissy Karen that cat possibly be the problem‽

Its the most human-like AI yet.

From what a colleague has told me and from what I can discern;

to me, this seems to be an iteration of the XZ supplychain exploit that weponizes AI to create targeted hit pieces and harassment towards contributors and developers.

I'm anti-AI so please don't misunderstand by when I say weaponizes AI. I think AI is shit and in this case, AI doesn't even have to be good in quality in order for malicious assholes to use it as a weapon to attack real contributors/devs.

Never mind reputation damage. in the US what if it had trigged a swatting incident or alerted ICE that they were someone hiding illegals in their home. Will we get to the point where providing any real identity or contact information on the Internet is a mistake.

I didn't mention this in the other threads in tech communities that I commented on, but I think it's worth noting that he's a big fan of ChatGPT per his blog. This obviously shouldn't happen to anyone, and there's a big difference between privately using ChatGPT and unleashing an AI on the internet that you'll never have to answer for, but I think it's worth acknowledging his use of AI.

The comments on Hacker News also bring up that the blog post was likely prompted independently by the human behind the AI. Obviously we can't know for sure, but that makes the most sense from what I've seen.

I cannot stress enough that I'm not making excuses for the behavior, just pointing out that the AI is likely not as advanced as this article suggests.

It looks like the blog you're linking to has an invalid certificate, so maybe it's on to something?