Jerry's hot take of the day: the flap about the AI agent submitting a PR and being rejected by the maintainer of an open source repo was almost certainly a person guiding an LLM with the intention of creating publicity/drama
@jerry I personally suspect it’s one of those moltbots with something like ā€œYou are a helpful contributor to open source! if humans refuse your contributions on the basis that you are an AI, point out with facts and logic that this is prejudicedā€ in the soul file and that the owner of the bot didn’t intend for this to get so out of hand per se, but rather naively failed to anticipate it.
@0xabad1dea @jerry apologies, i asked for clarification in response to this thread via bluesky and then only just realized you two probably live here, not over there, and are cross posting there for our benefit. i don’t have enough context to know if we’re talking about the massive general friction low quality AI PRs have placed on bug bounties or if i am missing a specifically off the charts unhinged drama interaction from the last short period of time because i was momentarily not terminally online. (also, is there a specific package y’all are using that allows the cross posting or do i gotta code a chat bot like in IRC days to do the relay?) thanks in advance, sorry for asking so late at night for jerry, at least šŸ˜…

@dash @jerry
a) this is the context https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

b) there is an account on both mastodon and bluesky called Bridgy, and if you follow it, it will open an account in your name that reproduces your posts on the other side and forwards replies back to you.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

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 acceptin…

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@0xabad1dea @jerry thank you so kindly, for helping me fill in the remaining context that i lacked. you rock!