Brynley McDonald
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Brynley McDonald
@zephire.nz
Tech Enthusiast. Full Stack Developer. Politics Doomscroller.

he/him 🏳️‍🌈
📍 Auckland, New Zealand
This is utterly bonkers, and yet also entirely predictable when you train AI on human data.

It is also terrifying that a reputable new source, ironically, used AI to write an article about the whole situation and then got called out for fabricating quotes 💀

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
theshamblog.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Reposted by Brynley McDonald
I'm an InternetNZ board member now apparently. Should probably figure out what I need to do...
a man with a mustache is drinking from a glass while wearing a blue jacket .
ALT: a man with a mustache is drinking from a glass while wearing a blue jacket .
media.tenor.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Did I want to spend over 3 hours tonight on a Zoom call to prevent #InternetNZ being taken over by FSU? Fuck no.

Am I glad I did? Hell yeah.

Huge props to the folks in the Slack, the jokes and GIFs at least made it bearable 😅
July 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM