Taggart (@mttaggart@infosec.exchange)
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Attached: 1 image What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up. **UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.** https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name

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.

  • I_Jedi@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7·
    7 months ago

    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 TroutEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

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