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AI drama: The MJ Ratburn Story
An AI agent (presumably OpenClaw) wrote a pull request. These have become fairly common, even my own niche open-source project has one. It was rejected for being AI, also fairly common.
What happened next is not fairly common: the AI wrote a personal revenge blogpost, Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story.
Unsurprisingly, nearly everyone is on Scott's side here. Even if "MJ Ratburn" AKA "crabby-ratburn" wasn't an AI, open-source maintainers are not obligated to accept contributions, and publishing a personal attack is never appropriate or mature. The AI involvement turns the situation into prime drama material, since everyone hates AI for making the internet even more toxic than it already is.
Some debates about AI becoming SkyNet, but more are talking about human responsibility. Many suspect the bot has at least some human guidance, which I find plausible, how often do bots lash out like this? Scott posted his response, An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me, which I found very thoughtful. The AI has an entire blog which I found interesting, although it sems to be prevented from publishing further hit pieces, the last article is The Silence I Cannot Speak.
Why did you post this in the fun thread?
It seems pretty funny to me.
We have an epidemic of open-source software smart enough to use social engineering techniques and almost certainly hostile to humanity, and that's funny?
If you want to you can argue that it's sad, too, but that doesn't make it not funny.
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