[fresh_broccoli]

>So many projects now walk on eggshells so as not to disrupt sponsor flow or employment prospects.

In my experience, open-source maintainers tend to be very agreeable, conflict-avoidant people. It has nothing to do with corporate interests. Well, not all of them, of course, we all know some very notable exceptions.

Unfortunately, some people see this welcoming attitude as an invite to be abusive.

[mixologic]

Yes, Linus Torvalds is famously agreeable.

[cortesoft]

> Well, not all of them, of course, we all know some very notable exceptions.

[jbreckmckye]

That's why he succeeded

[co_king_3]

Nothing has convinced me that Linus Torvalds' approach is justified like the contemporary onslaught of AI spam and idiocy has.

AI users should fear verbal abuse and shame.

[CoastalCoder]

Perhaps a more effective approach would be for their users to face the exact same legal liabilities as if they had hand-written such messages?

(Note that I'm only talking about messages that cross the line into legally actionable defamation, threats, etc. I don't mean anything that's merely rude or unpleasant.)

[stingraycharles]

But they’re not interacting with an AI user, they’re interacting with an AI. And the whole point is that AI is using verbal abuse and shame to get their PR merged, so it’s kind of ironic that you’re suggesting this.

AI may be too good at imitating human flaws.

[adharmad]

Swift blocking and ignoring is what I would do. The AI has an infinite time and resources to engage a conversation at any level, whether it is polite refusal, patient explanation or verbal abuse, whereas human time and bandwidth is limited.

Additionally, it does not really feel anything - just generates response tokens based on input tokens.

Now if we engage our own AIs to fight this battle royale against such rogue AIs.......

[staticassertion]

> AI users should fear verbal abuse and shame.

This is quite ironic since the entire issue here is how the AI attempted to abuse and shame people.

[doctorpangloss]

the venn diagram of people who love the abuse of maintaining an open source project and people who will write sincere text back to something called an OpenClaw Agent: it's the same circle.

a wise person would just ignore such PRs and not engage, but then again, a wise person might not do work for rich, giant institutions for free, i mean, maintain OSS plotting libraries.

[nativeit]

So what’s the alternative to OSS libraries, Captain Wisdom?