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Tech firms must remove ‘revenge porn’ in 48 hours or risk being blocked, says Starmer
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The recent incident of an open source maintainer getting libeled by a bot paints a picture of the future. We can expect autonomous agents to make revenge porn for coercive purposes without any human in the loop besides the victim. We will see more of these laws.
I missed this got a source?
Oh it's a saga. It's been all over the Orange site all last week. tl;dr; OpenClaw bot tries to get PR into OSS matplotlib, maintainer rejects, bot publishes hit piece on maintainer, shenanigans ensue. That article also links to future articles in the saga at the top. As a chef's kiss an Ars Technica article about the incident was written by AI and fabricated even more stuff before it was pulled.
I can't belive this is the world we live in lol.
See the recent QAA episode on Clavicular I just posted. Shit is getting fuckin weird folks.
Shit like this makes me so god damn paranoid. Ops like this run against projects exactly like ours got me all
Doesn't help I have been watching a bunch of spycraft slop (currently Red Eye which seems pretty good and so far in the mystery not full blown cold war 2.0 bullshit like Homeland).
Not that I think we are consequential enough to be direct targets but who fucking knows now what with the escalation with the ICE criticism data scraping. China is too risk averse to be running actual counterintelligence outside its own border but the fact we have so many true believers high on their own propaganda makes me genuinely fearful.
This particular section especially sums up my feelings: