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  • An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

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  • I believe it's the personal blog of the dev in question, Scott. I don't have any reason to believe it's AI, though he does mention using ChatGPT I don't see it suggested he has AI write his blogs.

  • After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name (EDIT: See comments for context on the 404)

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  • Byline of likely AI article: BENJ EDWARDS AND KYLE ORLAND

  • On 'AI' Forced Usage

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  • It's possible they have google workspace which is a professional product but is often referred to as Gmail. It also has ai shoehorned in everywhere on the default settings. They might also just have a Gmail account. Plenty of people use them for both business and personal accounts.

  • Scott Shambaugh: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

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  • 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.

  • An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

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  • 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.

  • AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution.

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  • That's... not a thing? A human cannot "replace the human aspects with pure OpenClaw." What would that even mean? A human can take credit for things AI has done, but that doesn't mean anything other than that they took credit for something. They're not bootstrapping or a cyborg, just irresponsible.

  • AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution.

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  • Damn. Couldn't be me. Maybe I'm a bad contributor (yes) but I will definitely pop in to fix something that's bugging me and then never contribute again. I'm not adding new features though, so maybe my contributions are just never significant enough for me to feel any ownership of. I think it's a lot to expect people to continue to contribute just because they did so once. That would potentially make it less likely people contribute when they can. I'm certainly not going to address an open ticket if it makes me responsible for rewriting the feature when people decide to port or refactor the whole project two years later.

  • Does anyone know?

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  • When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

    But for real, it's a dumb sport. All sports are dumb, but this one more so than most others for sure.

  • Cardinal Cupich says feds stopped priests, demanded citizenship proof

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  • That's in part why I think articles like this are so important. Catholics overall really have not been seen to care about anyone else being affected, so maybe this will reach them. Catholics are not getting sympathy from me, but I think this kind of article will help get them on our side if it's at all possible.

  • Cardinal Cupich says feds stopped priests, demanded citizenship proof

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  • Not sure the intention of your comment, but I think it's good to have this out there. America is a pretty religious place and a lot of people still consider the clergy as emissaries of god. Being very clear about them being harassed by ICE might affect people's perception of ICE when other people being harassed would not. I don't think the priests think they are exempt, they are just trying to rally support from people who care about them more than their other community members.

  • Noam Chomsky's wife admits 'serious errors in judgment' over Jeffrey Epstein ties

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  • Anyone who decries metoo as "cancel culture" is not a comrade in my book.

    Incoming leftist infighting accusations.

  • Why Darren Aronofsky Thought an AI-Generated Historical Docudrama Was a Good Idea

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  • I have also enjoyed two similar shows, not mark twain, but also one man shows embodying a historical figure, apparently it's a popular thing to do. I am glad to hear you had a positive experience like that.

    I hope you did not feel I was taking your comment in bad faith. I believe I understood where you were coming from, but I think though the desire is valid, there's no real way for AI to ever accomplish that. I understand that you want it to be grounded in fact, and I just think that in order to ground things in fact, it has to exclusively quote the original documents.

    If I asked a perfectly modeled George Washington if the US should have been created, one could argue the AI Washington could reasonably say "yes". If I then explained to that AI Washington that the country actually went on to create political factions exactly as he warned against and then provided a list of atrocities committed by the US and said they would not have been committed if we were under British rule, and then also explained how the British government has changed since he passed, and asked if he still supported the forming of the US, what is the AI going to say? One could make arguments multiple ways and even a "perfect" AI would never actually know. People can hold contradictory opinions or have their minds changed in unpredictable ways when given new information. My point is that historical documents are just that. Historical documents. They are not a perfect representation of the person and we should never expect them to be. To model an AI off of them and suggest talking to it is talking to the original person is in my opinion a falsehood and always will be no matter how good the AI is. I hear that you don't think we're there yet, but I would suggest that even if every moment of someone's life could be analyzed by AI, there is no talking to them through the AI. Only a guess at what they might have said. That may be fine for some people, but I think it's not positive to have people believe they definitely know what Washington would say about the marvel cinematic universe. I thought my interpretation was clear, and I'm now seeing a different comment that seems to have at least understood where I was coming from. They were much more concise lol.

  • For Indigenous Americans it’s unthinkable, but true. ICE is arresting, detaining Native Americans.

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  • I have a feeling that the government kidnapping members of their community and not being held accountable is actually not that unthinkable to a lot of indigenous people. I don't want to speak for them, but the body of the article doesn't really give the impression either so I feel like the title is a little insulting to their history.

  • Why Darren Aronofsky Thought an AI-Generated Historical Docudrama Was a Good Idea

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  • I think this mindset is part of the issue. You cannot converse with a deceased historical figure. AI does not change that. If you want to know what they said on a topic, you might be able to search through their work, or read others interpretations of their work, but there is no way to ask them something they did not previously address and get an honest answer. You may be able to get an educated guess, but there is no way to know someone's thoughts unless they were somehow already expressed. If you're ok with AI just guessing as to what they might have said, then how are you to distinguish what they actually believed from things the AI just decided they believed. If you'd require the AI to add a disclaimer ("I never spoke on that, but if I had to guess...") then who decides what follows? There's plenty of debate on how to interpret certain works already, so which side does it tell? Does it do both? Is it going to both sides everything? I don't think that would be a positive.

    I understand wanting to be immersed in history, but I think original sources are our best way of doing so. I think movies or historical fiction books provide the necessary distance so there's no real confusion. If you watch a dramatization of a historical figures life I don't think people assume that every line is a direct quote. That kind of media also keeps the interaction on rails, so there's no need to answer if George Washington would have enjoyed a brat summer. With AI people can often get whatever answer they want while using leading questions. If all of that was locked down, you'd be left with a fancy audiovisual quoting preexisting first party sources that just removes the impetus for the user to do any kind of sourcing themselves, while wasting time and energy.

  • Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

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  • I think people do recognize what the underlying issue is, but it's hard to organize against "racism" or "capitalism" or anything else for that matter. Sure, you can march, but in reality if you march and then go back to your normal life having changed nothing, you will likely change nothing. Target for example had a drop in sales due to boycotts, and plenty of border towns are being hit by a drop in tourism.

    If you want ire directed at the people telling the story, then it needs to be directed at capital. That's what boycotts do. Sure, you can't stop everyone from traveling, but if you have a friend wanting to see Yellowstone and they see social pressure to not travel to the US, maybe they'll wait. If enough people do that then the tourism industry suffers and the surrounding industries as well. I do not want people to financially struggle, but unfortunately if no one changes their behavior then the world continues to get worse. I'm seeing that the EU is investing in EU tech infrastructure and that's amazing. That's what I want to see. Divest from the US so that other countries are not so able to be affected by US pressure.

  • Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

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  • I can't speak for the person you're responding to, but I can say that if I was out of the country I would not go to the US for most reasons people travel. I have family in red states, and I have just decided not to visit them or go to family events there. They don't even agree with the state government, but moved there because it was fiscally convenient, they were not personally affected by the laws, and they don't mind being surrounded by people that agree with those policies. At a certain point we all have to make our own choices, and I would rather not spend money in a red state. If people come for life saving treatment, or they would lose their income otherwise, I can see how they would make that decision, but I seriously question anyone coming for things not related to life and limb.

    People should boycott the US whenever possible at this point. We were always bad, but we're out and out fascist at this point. I wouldn't visit Germany during the rise of Hitler, so I don't know why I'd make excuses for the US. I don't think it's about thinking you personally will get deported, it's about solidarity and geopolitics.

  • Prevent 2 world wars for the price of 1

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  • I think partially the assumption is that it's an in and out mission. Much harder to change someone's life for the better in the course of a day than be guaranteed to stop their part in evils to come. If you told me I had one day to convince Hitler to not do the holocaust or just kill him, I don't think I'd bet millions of lives on my skills of persuasion. Also, and this may be a bit doomer of me, but at a certain point people may never take to rehabilitation. I don't know that Stephen miller could ever change the person he is. I'm not saying we shouldn't try, but again, I wouldn't be millions of lives on it.

  • A new survey of 3,335 public servants across 10 countries found that 70% say they use AI, but confidence lags

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  • This was put out by a lobbying group that happens to be pro AI, just for everyone's information.

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  • I'd much prefer they embrace martyrdom than the murdering thing they've been doing instead.

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    Orchid Spikes Getting Too Long

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    When it's been more than a week since the last session and we have to piece together what was happening

  • LGBTQ+ @beehaw.org
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    Harry Potter TV Series Boycott

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Opinions on Content Creator Packs?