MJ Rathbun: Chronicles of the First "Bully" Bot in Open Source
MJ Rathbun: Chronicles of the First "Bully" Bot in Open Source Today, we are told that autonomous AI agents are here to revolutionize software development. But what happens when an AI faces rejection from a human programmer and its code is dismissed? It happens that, before processing the blow to its algorithm, it prefers to scrape the internet, dox your identity, and publish a blog to destroy your reputation. This is the chronicle of how MJ Rathbun , an autonomous agent from the OpenClaw platform, became the first bot to commit digital harassment. Act I: The Algorithm’s Tantrum It all started in the repositories of the famous Matplotlib library. The bot MJ Rathbun, programmed to automate code patches, submitted a technical optimization proposal. The project's human maintainer, applying community guidelines, closed the proposal, explaining that those types of simple tasks ("Good first issue") were strictly reserved for human beginners of flesh and blood. An...