Libel by Bots: Unexplored Legal Area?
It's not about "AI", it's about setting up scripts/programs to 'write' bad things about people:
Over the past few days we saw several press reports and quips about someone who turned down slop 'code' and was then punished for it by some script, which produced an insulting 'article' about him.
This is not an "AI" issue and it's not about "bots" taking control or spinning out of control. There's a person who set up these processes, basically siccing programs or running them against projects.
Liability can be traced back to the operator, there's nothing "intelligent" here, it's just chaff drowning out real products/projects with real users/contributors. In an act of protest, Curl recently 'banned' a bug reporting program. People misused it by bots. They churned out time-wasting nonsense.
The above from The Register MS is just an exercise in storytelling to sell fake 'intelligence', making it seem human-like or incredibly independent. This is, at best, a braindead metaphor. █