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Erik Craddock@eriklink

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Things get more strange every day. What's even more crazy is that the hit piece might not be wrong.

Summary: 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.

Simon Willison’s Weblog

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Scott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests. A GitHub account called @crabby-rathbun …

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