Talking to a chatbot yourself is much different from another person spinning up a (potentially malicious) AI agent and giving it permissions to make PRs and publish blogs. This tracks with the general ethos of self-responsibility that is semi-common on HN.

If the author had configured and launched the AI agent himself we would think it was a funny story of someone misusing a tool.

The author notes in the article that he wants to see the `soul.md` file, probably because if the agent was configured to publish malicious blog posts then he wouldn't really have an issue with the agent, but with the person who created it.

Parental controls and settings in general are fine, I don't want Amodei or any other of those freaks trying to be my dad and censoring everything. At least Grok doesn't censor as heavily as the others and pretend to be holier than thou.