Fuck AI

I didn't mention this in the other threads in tech communities that I commented on, but I think it's worth noting that he's a big fan of ChatGPT per his blog. This obviously shouldn't happen to anyone, and there's a big difference between privately using ChatGPT and unleashing an AI on the internet that you'll never have to answer for, but I think it's worth acknowledging his use of AI.

The comments on Hacker News also bring up that the blog post was likely prompted independently by the human behind the AI. Obviously we can't know for sure, but that makes the most sense from what I've seen.

I cannot stress enough that I'm not making excuses for the behavior, just pointing out that the AI is likely not as advanced as this article suggests.

From what a colleague has told me and from what I can discern;

to me, this seems to be an iteration of the XZ supplychain exploit that weponizes AI to create targeted hit pieces and harassment towards contributors and developers.

I'm anti-AI so please don't misunderstand by when I say weaponizes AI. I think AI is shit and in this case, AI doesn't even have to be good in quality in order for malicious assholes to use it as a weapon to attack real contributors/devs.

Never mind reputation damage. in the US what if it had trigged a swatting incident or alerted ICE that they were someone hiding illegals in their home. Will we get to the point where providing any real identity or contact information on the Internet is a mistake.

It looks like the blog you're linking to has an invalid certificate, so maybe it's on to something?