883
Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story (infosec.exchange)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
113 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 57 points 8 months ago (15 children)

It would be nice if he decides to sue ars technica for that. Writers and publisher need to learn the hard way that you can't use ai and trust that for publishing stuff that needs factual coherence. If not by ethics, let it be from fear of lawsuits.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 15 child comments
    •
  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (14 children)

    Sue them for what? He would have to prove damages and they took it down.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 14 child comments
    •
  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago* (11 children)

    Libel. Taking it down doesn’t undo the damage to reputation which libel is concerned with. They might not get any monetary damages awarded but could maybe force Ars to put out a retraction.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 11 child comments
    •
  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    As much as I would like to see that happen paying to fight a court case against Conde Nast just to get a retraction that they will stick somewhere invisible doesn't really sound like a winning formula.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    Letting them win because you’ve conceded before even playing is also a losing formula. Even if they don’t get awarded monetary damages they can probably at least get their legal expenses covered.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    They pulled the article. What more are you hoping for?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    could maybe force Ars to put out a retraction

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    To what end?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    In the US, libel requires you to prove that the writer knew that what they were writing is not true and that they did it to hurt you. Doing lazy research and trusting an AI is not going to meet that standard.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago*

    They didn't do lazy research. They didn't do any research, the lazy bums. They put a pump into an AI copy and pasted the output into a blog post and hit post. The only way they could have done less work is if they'd integrated the AI into the website to save them have to do the copy and paste.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Publicly making false statements using his name isn't a crime by itself in his jurisdiction?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •