The author of this article spends an Inordinate amount of time using an AI agent and then 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 that’s the appropriate response. Nothing terrifying happened. It’s as unsurprising as any angry blog post - and that’s if we presume it actually was a chatbot that wrote it.

He’s not telling you to be terrified of the single bot writing a blog post. He’s telling you to be terrified of the blog post being ingested by other bots and then seen as a source of truth. Resulting in AI recruiters automatically rejecting his resume for job postings. Or for other agents deciding to harass him for the same reason.

You’re describing things that people can do. In fact, maybe it was just a person.

If he thinks all those things are bad, he should be “terrified” that bloggers can blog anonymously already.

It’s the same thing as people who are concerned about AI generating non-consensual sexual imagery.

Sure anyone with photoshop could have done it before but unless they had enormous skill they couldn’t do it convincingly and there were well defined precedents that they broke the law. Now Grok can do it for anyone who can type a prompt and cops won’t do anything about it.

So yes, anyone could have technically done it before but now it’s removing the barriers that prevented every angry crazy person with a keyboard from being able to cause significant harm.