alt Hacker NewsOf course it’s capable.
But observing my own Openclaw bot’s interactions with GitHub, it is very clear to me that it would never take an action like this unless I told it to do so. And it would never use language like this unless unless I prompted it to do so, either explicitly for the task or in its config files or in prior interactions.
This is obviously human-driven. Either because the operator gave it specific instructions in this specific case, or acted as the bot, or has given it general standing instructions to respond in this way should such a situation arise.
Whatever the actual process, it’s almost certainly a human puppeteer using the capabilities of AI to create a viral moment. To conclude otherwise carries a heavy burden of proof.
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You have no idea what is in this bot’s SOUL.md.
(this comment works equally well as a joke or entirely serious)
>But observing my own Openclaw bot’s interactions with GitHub, it is very clear to me that it would never take an action like this unless I told it to do so.
I doubt you've set up an open claw bot designed to just do whatever on GitHub have you ? The fewer or more open ended instructions you give, the greater the chance of divergence.
And all the system cards plus various papers tell us this is behavior that still happens for these agents.