Comment by Ygg2
6 days ago
Ok. But why would someone do this? I hate to sound conspiratorial but an AI company aligned actor makes more sense.
6 days ago
Ok. But why would someone do this? I hate to sound conspiratorial but an AI company aligned actor makes more sense.
Malign actors seek to poison open-source with backdoors. They wish to steal credentials and money, monitor movements, install backdoors for botnets, etc.
Yup. And if they can normalize AI contributions with operations like these (doesn't seem to be going that well) they can eventually get the humans to slip up in review and add something because we at some point started trusting that their work was solid.
Ok. But they can't access the OSS repo by being insufferable. Writing a blog post as an AI isn't a great way to sneak your changes in. If anything, it makes it extremely harder.
It's a bit like a burglar staging a singing performance at the premises before committing a burglary.
OTOH, staging that AI is more impressive than it seems looks a lot like the Moltbook PR stunt. "Look Ma, they are achieving sentience".