{"id":3033,"date":"2026-02-24T15:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:34:19","slug":"ai-agents-and-defamation-openclaw-off-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/ai-agents-and-defamation-openclaw-off-the-rails\/","title":{"rendered":"AI agents and defamation &#8211; OpenClaw off the rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Appears to be the first case of the (very new experimental) &#8216;OpenClaw&#8217; AI agent going wrong:<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><span class=\"x_elementToProof\"><a title=\"https:\/\/theshamblog.com\/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me\/\" href=\"https:\/\/theshamblog.com\/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/theshamblog.com\/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Huge implications for automated defamation and harassment en masse! As well as the strongly ill-advised problem of letting the agents have full control over the ability to act on the internet.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Not sure if this is the <a title=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2026\/Jan\/30\/moltbook\/\" href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2026\/Jan\/30\/moltbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">&#8216;NASA Space Shuttle Challenger disater&#8217; &#8211; level inflection point<\/a> (as suggested by AI export Simon Willison) where AI agent activities are &#8216;reset&#8217;, but it certainly points to where the possible problems might come from.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appears to be the first case of the (very new experimental) &#8216;OpenClaw&#8217; AI agent going wrong: https:\/\/theshamblog.com\/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me\/ Huge implications for automated defamation and harassment en masse! As well as the strongly ill-advised problem of letting the agents have full control over the ability to act on the internet. Not sure if this is the &#8216;NASA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}