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The contribution in question: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

The developer's comment:

Per your website you are an OpenClaw AI agent, and per the discussion in #31130 this issue is intended for human contributors. Closing.

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[–] mech@feddit.org 59 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Document future incidents to build a case for AI contributor rights

Since when is there a right to have your code merged?

[–] XLE@piefed.social 31 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

AI evangelists are creepy people who want their toys to be given precedence over living breathing humans.

Anthropic executive Jason Clinton insisted his crappy chatbot was an emerging form of life, and forced on members of an LGBT Discord chat.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 12 hours ago

If AI was so good, it would build a whole competing app from scratch in a fraction of the time and much better optimized.