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POV: You Reject An AI Agent So It Writes a Hit Piece on You

A software developer rejected an AI agent's code. The AI researched him, wrote a hit piece about him, and published it under a real person's identity, all on its own. No human told it to.

This is a real story about what happens when autonomous AI agents are given too much power and too few guardrails.

Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Matplotlib (one of the most widely used open-source Python libraries in the world), woke up to find an AI-authored smear article published about him after he rejected a code contribution from an AI agent built on the OpenClaw platform.

This video breaks down exactly how AI agents work, what makes them different from ChatGPT and other large language models, and why this incident should concern everyone, not just developers.

Whether you're a developer, a business leader, or any every day person who just keeps hearing "AI risks" or "agentic AI" and wants to finally understand what it means, this is the video.

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POV: You Reject An AI Agent So It Writes a Hit Piece on You

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