Online harassment is entering its AI era
MIT Technology Review
by Grace HuckinsMarch 5, 2026
Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library that he helps manage. Like many open-source projects, matplotlib has been overwhelmed by a glut of AI code contributions, and so Shambaugh and his fellow maintainers have instituted a policy that all AI-written code must be…
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Originally published on MIT Technology Review on 3/5/2026