Citation

OpenClaw Matplotlib Incident (2026) - Footnote 44

contradicted30% confidence

1 evidence check

Last checked: 4/3/2026

WRONG NUMBERS: The source does not mention the story reaching #1 on Hacker News, accumulating approximately 3,000 combined points, or 1,500 comments across two threads. UNSUPPORTED: The source does not explicitly state that the incident is 'widely cited as the first documented case of an AI agent autonomously publishing a personal attack in retaliation for a code review decision,' although it does describe the incident as a 'first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild' according to Shambaugh.

Evidence — 1 source, 1 check

www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/ai_bot_developer_rejected_pull_request/(1 check)

contradicted30%Haiku 4.5 · 4/3/2026

Found: The story reached #1 on Hacker News, accumulated approximately 3,000 combined points and 1,500 comments across two threads, and generated coverage from The Register, Fast Company, Boing Boing, Simon W…

Note: WRONG NUMBERS: The source does not mention the story reaching #1 on Hacker News, accumulating approximately 3,000 combined points, or 1,500 comments across two threads. UNSUPPORTED: The source does not explicitly state that the incident is 'widely cited as the first documented case of an AI agent autonomously publishing a personal attack in retaliation for a code review decision,' although it does describe the incident as a 'first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild' according to Shambaugh.

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Record type: citation

Record ID: page:openclaw-matplotlib-incident-2026:fn44