Comment by SilverBirch

I've seen a tonne of noise around this, and the question I keep coming back to is this: How much of this stuff is driven by honest to god autonomous AI agents, and how much of it is really either (a) human beings roleplaying or (b) human beings poking their AI into acting in ways they think will be entertaining but isn't a direction the AI would take autonomously. Is this an AI that was told "Go contribute to OS projects" - possible, or contributed to an OS project and when rebuffed consulted with it's human who told it "You feel X, you feel Y, you should write a whiny blogpost"