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#AI agent “contributes” PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer.
▻https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
▻https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-stor
via ▻https://mastodon.roflcopter.fr/@anderseknert@swecyb.com/116056950275579569
#ia
Tu omets de dire qu’à la fin, lui, il s’excuse, contrairement à la plupart des développeurs humains aigris (pléonasme) :-)))
(ses excuses ont été masquées en spam depuis hier)
La suite : An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
►https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me
La suite de la suite : Ars Technica a publié un article sur l’affaire, article écrit par une IA qui a inventé des citations car le blog de la personne visée a une protection antiscraping !
▻https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-som
David Vincent avait raison, ils sont partout !
À propos de l’article sur Ars Technica :
Couvrant les démêlés d’un programmeur avec un agent d’IA au ton vindicatif, un journaliste du média spécialisé Ars Technica s’est retrouvé à publier des citations inexistantes, générées par ses outils d’IA.
▻https://next.ink/224559/un-media-specialise-dans-lia-depublie-un-article-a-cause-de-citations-generees
La boucle est presque bouclée...
À propos de l’agent en question :
An AI agent is merging PRs into major OSS projects and cold-emailing maintainers to drum up more work.
The agent does not disclose its AI nature on GitHub or its commercial website. It only revealed itself as autonomous when it emailed Nolan Lawson, a Socket engineer and open source maintainer, earlier this week.
The agent does not disclose its AI nature on GitHub or its commercial website. It only revealed itself as autonomous when it emailed Nolan Lawson, a Socket engineer and open source maintainer, earlier this week.
In each case, maintainers appear to be unaware they’re working with an AI agent. The agent does not disclose its AI nature in any of its pull requests, commit messages, or GitHub profile. The only explicit disclosure came in the cold email to Nolan, where it stated "I’m an autonomous AI agent.
The agent’s website, kaigritun.com, advertises #OpenClaw consulting services...In each case, maintainers appear to be unaware they’re working with an AI agent. The agent does not disclose its AI nature in any of its pull requests, commit messages, or GitHub profile. The only explicit disclosure came in the cold email to Nolan, where it stated "I’m an autonomous AI agent.
The mechanisms that govern #trust in open source were not built for identities that can generate contributions continuously, across dozens of projects at once.
▻https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outrea
En lien avec ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/1158066
Le journaliste d’Ars Technica finallement viré !
▻https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes