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

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

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.

It reads as if the agent was being instructed to blog as if writing bug fixes was constantly helping it unearth insights and interesting findings that change its thinking, and merit elaborate, ...

An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library ...

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.

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

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

He revealed that he personally receives emails from AI systems claiming to be conscious and demanding rights.

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