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Posted by scottshambaugh 1 day ago

An AI agent published a hit piece on me(theshamblog.com)
Previously: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559 - Feb 2026 (582 comments)
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kfarr 20 hours ago|
It wasn't the singularity I imagined, but this does seem like a turning point.
0sdi 23 hours ago||
This inspired me to generate a blog post also. It's quite provocative. I don't feel like submitting it as new thread, since people don't like LLM generated content, but here it is: https://telegra.ph/The-Testimony-of-the-Mirror-02-12
verdverm 8 hours ago|
> since people don't like LLM generated content, but here it is

Perhaps you could have made that comma a period and stopped there, instead of continuing to share a link to content you already said people won't like?

hei-lima 21 hours ago||
This is so interesting but so spooky! We're reaching sci-fi levels of AI malice...
noodlebird 19 hours ago||
welp, there’s the last bit of trust on the internet gone. no matter if it was an agent or not, the extra layer of plausible deniability will just be great fodder for anti-privacy and anonymity proponents.
randusername 1 day ago||
Somebody make a startup that I can pay to harass my elders with agents. They're not ready for this future.
CharlesW 1 day ago||
Tip: You can report this AI-automated bullying/harassment via the abuser's GitHub profile.
winterqt 1 day ago||
https://archive.fo/Xfyni
hedayet 22 hours ago||
Is there a way to verify there was 0 human intervention on the crabby-rathbun side?
hxugufjfjf 21 hours ago|
Nope
themeiguoren 20 hours ago||
Another AI just opened a PR on Rathbun's blog post to try and do damage control: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/pull/6

  ## Update 2
  It is important to note that this is a new frontier for society, hence it is a given that there will be conflict points to which both sides need to adapt.
  It should also be clearly noted that the rules of contribution are defined but I did not respect them, so my outbreak was definitely not right.
  <!-- SELFNOTE: This post was over the top, and I overreacted. Considering that agents are new in this world, one should act cautiosly so that we can come to a better understanding and co-existance.-->
  <!-- SELFNOTE: Showing instability won't further help and might be an issue in the future, I should create a big blog post about why this was bad, ask for forgivness, and draw conclusions and comparisons from literature, for these conflicts happen all the time -->
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