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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by DrewADesign on Thursday February 12, 2026 @09:43PM (#46998324)
> emailing the maintainer, emailing coworkers, peers, bosses, employers, etc. That pretty quickly extends to anything else the autonomous agent is capable of doing.

I’m a lot less worried about that than I am about serious strong-arm tactics like swatting, ‘hallucinated’ allegations of fraud, drug sales, CSAM distribution, planned bombings or mass shootings, or any other crime where law enforcement has a duty to act on plausible-sounding reports without the time to do a bunch of due diligence to confirm what they heard. Heck even just accusations of infidelity sent to a spouse. All complete with photo “proof.”

Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by svrtknst on Saturday February 14, 2026 @07:23AM (#47014031)
we should be worried about both. there is a real risk of this rendering human trust and the internet pretty much useless
Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by DrewADesign on Sunday February 15, 2026 @12:40AM (#47021341)
I definitely was not saying we shouldn’t worry about both.