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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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by 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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[–] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

Ars Technica has published a retraction

edit: Benj Edwards, the author responsible, has posted his side. tl;dr: He was sick and he messed up, and he asked for the article to be pulled because he was too sick to fix it right away.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (7 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".

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    He did own it.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months 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.

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