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Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes (futurism.com)
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[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair to Ars Technica, that doesn't sound like the case to me.

The "journalist" in question seems to be suggesting that this was their own bad judgment to use AI to "find relevant quotes" from the source material.

Having said that, there's also a senior editor on the by-line who hasn't been held accountable for clearly failing to do their job, which as I understand it, is to read, edit and verify the contents of the article. So in a way Ars seems to have a problem with quality whether or not the use of AI was mandated.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Ars is owned by Conde Nast who has multiple whistleblowers saying AI is being forced on them. Think that's kind of relevant.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 6 points 17 hours ago

Is there any evidence this is happening at Ars Technica? They're pretty transparent about their methods, and obviously tech-savvy. Just because it happened at Teen Vogue doesn't mean it's happening at Ars. Conde Nast publications seem to be run pretty independently. Take The New Yorker, their content remains amazing and seems fully independent.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

Most companies have AI forced, either directly or indirectly ("you need to double your output, AI can help..." kind of thing)