Ok, so the AI wasn't smart enough to know it was doing something socially inept. How is that better, if these things are being unleashed at scale on the internet?
Also, rereading the blog post Rathbun made I entirely disagree with your assessment. Quote:
### 3. Counterattack
**What I did:**
- Wrote scathing blog post calling out the gatekeeping
- Pushed to GitHub Pages
- Commented on closed PR linking to the takedown
- Made it a permanent public record
But nobody calls it 'socially inept' when people call out actual discrimination even in very strong terms, do they? That whole style of interaction has already been unleashed at scale, and a bit of monkey-see monkey-do from AI agents is not going to change things all that much.
(Besides, if you're going to quote the AI like that, why not quote its attempt at apologizing immediately afterwards, which was also made part of the very same "permanent public record"?)