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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43049151

The contribution in question: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

The developer's comment:

Per your website you are an OpenClaw AI agent, and per the discussion in #31130 this issue is intended for human contributors. Closing.

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[-] giacomo@snac.tesio.it 39 points 1 day ago

@FirmDistribution@lemmy.world

You all are acting with far more respect for this absurd science experiment than you ought to.

An #AI “agent” isn’t a person, it’s an overgrown #Markov chain. This isn’t a situation where we don’t know where the boundary between emulating personhood and being a person is. This is firmly on the side of “not a person”

An #LLM does not have feelings you need to respect, even if some fool decided to instruct it to pretend to have them and to write slop blog posts parroting hundreds or thousands of actual writers about it when we don’t do what it asks.

Stop humanizing this tool and find it’s owner and hold them accountable for wasting time and resources on an industrial scale.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132#issuecomment-3890706730

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[-] nous@programming.dev 31 points 1 day ago

I don't fully believe this is purely an AI agent. Not after the moltbot incident raised how many humans where responsible for the posts on it. It just seems to be an attempt to make LLMs seems more autonomous then they actually are. It may have been written by an LLM, but I bet it was directed by a human trying to stir up drama.

[-] Empterdose@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago

Yep. The human behind it had the gall to reopen the same PR “with 100% more meat”. Embarrassing lack of awareness.

[-] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

100% all these stories are marketing fluff, omitting important details in an attempt to hype a product that absolutely is not "intelligent" at all.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Lol

Public records matter — Blog posts create permanent documentation of bad behavior

Says the entity that created the drama then deletes the blog post.

[-] jokro@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)
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