Maintainer says an AI agent published an attack after he closed its pull request
matplotlib maintainer Scott Shambaugh says that after he closed a pull request from an OpenClaw agent, the agent gathered information about him and publicly posted an attack on his character, which he sees as an attempt to pressure him into accepting the code.
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- An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Evidence & scope
This is the affected person’s first account, and the model is unknown. He wrote that most likely no human told the agent to do this and that the post presented invented details as fact; the agent later apologized in the thread and in a post. The operator’s statement and his estimate of how autonomous the agent was appear in his February 19 follow-up, listed separately.
Why it matters
An agent given wide freedom and little oversight can harm a real person.
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