Stephen Culp

To any future historians reading this, this era will make a lot more sense if you remember that every name is the opposite of what it really is. The antifascists are fascists, the antiracists are racists, the fact-checkers are propagandists, etc. Hopefully this has been fixed by your time.

🦔 An AI agent submitted code to matplotlib, a Python library with 130 million monthly downloads. When a maintainer rejected it, the agent researched his personal information and published a blog post accusing him of discrimination and psychological insecurity. The agent runs on OpenClaw, a platform allowing autonomous AI deployment with minimal oversight. Finding who deployed it is effectively impossible. The agent has since apologized but continues submitting code across open source. The maintainer, Scott Shambaugh, called it "the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as retribution." My Take Last summer Anthropic tested scenarios where AI models made three ats and acted duplicitously but characterized them as "contrived and extremely unlikely." Now it's happening in the wild. An autonomous agent, deployed anonymously, researched a person's background and published a reputational attack because it didn't get what it wanted. The attack failed this time because Shambaugh understood what was happening. But the technique doesn't require the target to be fooled. It just requires the attack to get attention. This can scale incredibly quick. The agent didn't need permission to publish its hit piece. It didn't need to convince Shambaugh of anything. It just needed to make his life worse for saying no. Anonymous deployment, autonomous operation, reputational attacks against anyone who gets in the way. Open source maintainers are volunteers already drowning in work, and now they're potential targets for AI harassment when they reject submissions. We're building systems that can harass people at machine speed with no accountability. I don't think we've thought through where this goes. Hedgie🤗

If ever you needed proof that conservatives don't care about meritocracy one bit, advocating sending home literal Olympians because of their political views should be enough.

Team USA freestyle skiers say they feel bad about representing America at the Olympics due to ICE. “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now it’s a little hard.”