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Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story (infosec.exchange)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Hacker News.

Author blog about that.

AI generated quotes in a story about AI clanker writing a blog post about a human developer because they didn't accept their code contributions.

How deep can someone go here.

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[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't care he's "sick". Too often, someone, instead of taking accountability, just throws anything to maybe shield themselves from actually being fully accountable. "I was sick", "Family problems", "A recent death", "The planets were misaligned that day", etc.

I find it to still be cowardice, to not stand by and own what you said, even if it was wrong. He used AI and got caught. And going forward, I'll be treating Ars Technica as an unreliable AI-generated "news source".

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The whole purpose of a news reporter is kind of to get their news right.
If they can't do that, their service is worthless.

[–] I_Jedi@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's the old way of doing news.

The new way of doing news is generating news that favors the news reporters' financial backers.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 4 points 1 day ago

I signed up to Ars 9 years ago. It is painful to transparently witness the decay.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

He did own it.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I disagree, clearly. Owning would be "yes, I messed up, I used AI to write my process and didn't bother reviewing any of it, I took shortcuts". That and just that. Using "I was feeling sick" is deflecting blame instead of owning it.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

He's saying he didn't respond sooner because his bosses told him not to until they released a statement, then be got such which it's why he didn't respond sooner. We're saying the same thing bub.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Benj Edwards handles most of their AI coverage. I wouldn't take his use of AI as a sign of what the rest of the staff is doing.