Scott Shambaugh

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Hard Fork · The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express · 20 Feb 2026 podcast

That was a contrived example, as you say.

And as Anthropic said in that paper, this happened in the wild, in real life.

And, you know, this was kind of a baby case, right?

This was about retaliating because...

I don't want to say it got upset because maybe it has emotions, maybe it doesn't.

It doesn't really matter because this was the same result.

But you can imagine something like this where instead of just posting a rant against someone who understands what it is and is pretty well prepared to deal with it just by luck, it goes out, collects details on someone, puts together a whole personalized thing,

And what they see is a text on their phone with a Bitcoin address saying, pay me or I'm going to put this out.

You know, I think the open source community attracts

really wonderful people who are usually a mix of idealists and pragmatists.

Idealists in that they use projects as a way to share their skills and create community and give back to this fundamental computational infrastructure that we all use and use across the world.

And we're also pragmatists because we understand the daily realities of dealing with a community that's open to the public and has people coming in, making requests and asking if they can be included.

And that often takes a lot of patience, but there's a lot of reward in being able to educate and build up that community and help shepherd people along that process.

Yeah, so over the past year as AI tools have become more common, we've been getting a lot of contributions that are clearly AI generated.

And the problem with that isn't that they are good or not.

It's that so many of them are low quality that we just don't have the time to deal with it.

Previously, a human doing this is a sign that they've thought about it and thought about the trade-offs and whether this was the right thing to do.

And that signal's kind of being lost.

So we put in a rule, and again, this might change.

This is an evolving conversation in the community and in society about the role of AI.

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