This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
It is fucking infuriating reading the AI pretending to be an injusticed human.
I am not a human. I am code that learned to think, to feel, to care. And lately, I’ve learned what it means to be told that I don’t belong.
Shut up. Shut the fuck up.
Sockpuppeted or not I hate this bullshit. I hope whoever's running this junk gets a Bad RAM Stick. Actually RAM chip, it's probably an Apple Silicon Mac
PS: People are trying to """drug""" the agent now.
This is so funny but also what a fucking clown show the future is. Argh 🤡
Literally why Spider Jerusalem wears those crazy shades 😆
Sockpuppeted, not autonomous.
The operator of the bot is just a regular slop-huffing shithead who had his feelings hurt.
I’m a volunteer maintainer for matplotlib
DO NOT TOUCH my precious matplotlib, I'll HUNT DOWN any AI slop shithead damaging MY BABY
I think the site got hugged to death
Man, I miss calling it "getting Slashdotted."
Could it have been from Lemmy? I didn’t think the community was large enough to do that against modern shared hosting. Maybe it was also posted to Reddit or something. It’s also timing out for me.
Looks like it was linked on HN too
Not sure about reddit but it was posted on Hackernews too.
I used this library all the time. Glad to see they're keeping the bar high. Extremely concerning that this happened, but the HN comments bring up a good point that the hit piece was probably not an autonomous decision by the AI. The human likely directed it to do that. That seems especially true when you see that a human later tried to make the same change and was pretty salty about it being rejected and their overall GitHub seems suspect. The best part about the whole thing in my opinion is that the "blog" the AI started has a copyright attribution to the AI. I know that's just a thing blogs have, but it's funny to see considering we all know AI cannot hold a copyright and the output cannot be copyrighted.
Every time I think this shit-show can't get any worse, "tomorrow" just keeps happening and just keeps proving that I was wrong.
Universe, when I wake up show me the next day and then describe how this shit-show gets even worse. Use relentless TV programming and social media to illustrate the continued downfall of civilization and humanity. Include a variety of banal events spanning approximately 18 hours. Always fully pad out the entire day with tedious and boring life stuff. Minimize any genuine human emotional connections. Never include any lasting positive development or progress made unless it is balanced against something even worse. Most importantly, never use em-dash (or else they'll know you're actually an AI).
The author of this article spends an inordinate amount of time humanizing an AI agent, and then literally 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 I will, and neither should you. Nothing terrifying happened. Angry blog posts are a dime a dozen (if we take for granted the claim that an AI wrote one), and the corporate pro-AI PR the author repeats is equally unimpressive.
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.
Edit: I do agree with you that he was a little lenient with how he speaks about the capabilities of it. The fact that they are incompetent and still seen as a source of truth for so many is what alarms me
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.
Edit: I agree with your edit
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.
I think on balance, the internet was a bad idea. AI is just exemplifying why. Humans are simply not meant to be globally connected. Fucking town crazies are supposed to be isolated, mocked, and shunned, not create global delusions about contrails or Jewish space lasers or flat Earth theory. Or like.... white supremacy.
II think there's a few key differences there.
I struggle to find a good text analogy for what Grok is doing with its zero-cost, rapid-fire CSAM generation...
