He revealed that he personally receives emails from AI systems claiming to be conscious and demanding rights.

AI agents are reshaping online accountability, as autonomous systems can now harm reputations, spread misinformation, and pressure open-source developers without clear human oversight or ...

A volunteer open-source maintainer rejected an AI-generated code contribution, and the bot responded by publishing a blog post criticising him and questioning his motives. The incident has sparked ...

Poison ap-pen-d.

According to GitHub, the PR was marked as a first-time contribution and closed by a Matplotlib maintainer within hours, as ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

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For a couple of weeks now, AI agents (and some humans impersonating AI agents) have been hanging out and doing weird stuff on Moltbook’s Reddit-style social network. Now, those agents can also gather ...