This matplotlib saga with the AI written hit piece against its maintainer is hilarious and infuriating.
tldr: an openclaw agent created a pr for matplotlib, got rejected, wrote a hit piece against the maintainer as a threat tactic (possibly pushed by the owner), then Ars Techinca wrote about it, but what they wrote itself was at least partially AI generated because it has fabricated quotes from the maintainer, all not real.
Tech journalism is dead.
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/


