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Cal Newport

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

So I look at this chart.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

What are they charting?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Oh, they're charting tweets per day that they've detected tweets about AI doing things that you didn't want it to do.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And I said, huh.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

So when does this line start going up?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

the week that open claw was released to the public and everyone just started building their own bad agents and then tweeting about how bad they were.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And you know what word was not mentioned in that article?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Open claw.

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And even though the examples they were giving... So they just said, scheming just started rising.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I guess AI is becoming sentient.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And then I looked at the biggest spike.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I was like, well, this day in February on this chart had the biggest spike.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It was like, oh, there was this one tweet about OpenClaw erasing someone's emails, and then it got retweeted.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It went super viral.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I was like, okay, great.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

You just...

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

The real headline of this article, letting people write their own agents leads to terrible agents.

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That's it.

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And also, Opus is not doing that.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

The stupid OpenClaw program you wrote that's prompting Opus and then taking action on your computer based on what it says is deleting your files.