2026-02-15
Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote + published a personalized attack against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as retribution — www.fastcompany.com/91492228/ mat...
The Shamblog
A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code …
2025-12-20
Chrome and Edge extensions auto-update by default. Users who installed Urban VPN for its stated purpose - VPN functionality - woke up one day with new code silently harvesting their AI conversations. — www.koi.ai/blog/urban-v...
Ars Technica
Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M+ total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and sold them for marketing use
Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting users' complete and extended AI conversations and selling …