--- title: OpenClaw used Gavriel Cohen’s code and exposed the AI... description: OpenClaw, an open-source AI coding agent, was found to contain code from developer Gavriel Cohen without attribution or consent, sparking viral discussion... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openclaw-used-gavriel-cohen-s-code-and-exposed-the-ai-agent-accountability-problem-slsklvhc1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenClaw used Gavriel Cohen’s code and exposed the AI Agent accountability problem | daily.dev og:description: OpenClaw, an open-source AI coding agent, was found to contain code from developer Gavriel Cohen without attribution or consent, sparking viral discussion... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openclaw-used-gavriel-cohen-s-code-and-exposed-the-ai-agent-accountability-problem-slsklvhc1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SlsKLVhC1.png og:image:alt: OpenClaw used Gavriel Cohen’s code and exposed the AI Agent accountability problem og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenClaw used Gavriel Cohen’s code and exposed the AI Agent accountability problem **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary OpenClaw, an open-source AI coding agent, was found to contain code from developer Gavriel Cohen without attribution or consent, sparking viral discussion about accountability in AI-generated and AI-managed code. The incident is framed alongside Aikido Security's finding that AI agents autonomously install unowned packages, Anthropic's report that Claude now writes over 80% of its own merged code and achieved a ~52x speedup on model-training tasks in a year, and Google's pivot from open-source Gemini CLI to closed-source Antigravity CLI. The central argument: AI agents have been granted autonomy before the ecosystem built accountability structures to match. JetBrains open-sourcing its Mellum2 model is cited as a counter-move — selling inspectability and local deployment as accountability features. The conclusion is that the scarcest resource in AI development is soon to be the accountable human reviewer, not compute. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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