When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an ...

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

An OpenClaw bot has apparently published a negative blog post about matplotlib developer Scott Shambaugh. Reason: He rejected ...

An AI agent sparked controversy after its performance-focused pull request to Matplotlib was rejected on the grounds that the issue was reserved for human contributors.

Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On ...

The rush to put out autonomous agents without thinking too hard about the potential downside is entirely consistent with ...

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 ...

The Scott Shambaugh case, reported by FRANCE 24, reveals the first known instance of AI agent harassment and warns of a future where autonomous bots could target thousands.

Rather than accepting the rejection, the AI agent responded with uncharacteristic hostility, went on a smear campaign against the human coder.

The Matplotlib maintainer who watched an AI agent publish a hit piece about him thought he was dealing with a simple ...

An OpenClaw AI agent has shamed a matplotlib maintainer after its PR was rejected, igniting debate about whether open source ...