Touching grass never felt better
Scott Shambaugh in An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me:
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.
It's not that it's surprising. Many people saw it coming from a mile away. I guess I just thought it would be less… trite.
If you get your kicks, any of your kicks, online, this is a watershed moment. We've ruined it. It was nice while it lasted, but the analogue world is once more where we belong. There's nothing left for us here, in the digital sphere.
Get outside. Feel the sun on your skin. Leave the phone at home. Joke around with a friend. Touch grass.
It's what we were meant to do.