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Online harassment is entering its AI era
Publisher description: Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library that he helps manage. Like many open-source projects, matplotlib has been overwhelmed by a glut of AI code contributions, and so Shambaugh and his fellow maintainers have instituted a policy that all AI-written code must be…
MIT Technology Review | Mar 5, 2026 | Grace Huckins
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Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library that he helps manage. Agents behaving badly Though Shambaugh’s experience last month was perhaps the most dramatic example of an OpenClaw agent behaving badly, it was far from the only one. In the blog post, the agent’s owner shared the agent’s “SOUL. md” file, which contains global instructions for how it should behave.
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