brianpeiris@lemmy.ca to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agoAfter a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name (EDIT: See comments for context on the 404)arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10cross-posted to: pulse_of_truth@infosec.pubprogramming@programming.dev
arrow-up123arrow-down1external-linkAfter a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name (EDIT: See comments for context on the 404)arstechnica.combrianpeiris@lemmy.ca to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square2linkfedilinkcross-posted to: pulse_of_truth@infosec.pubprogramming@programming.dev
minus-squarebrianpeiris@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-21 month agoIn a supreme sense of irony, it seems this article was quickly taken down when the subject of the article commented that Ars had fabricated (or hallucinated) quotes from him. So disappointing to see from Ars Technica. Context: https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards.1511650/ https://mastodon.social/@nikclayton/116065459933532659 Archived article (containing the fabricated quotes), for what it’s worth: https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/
minus-squareMountingSuspicion@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoByline of likely AI article: BENJ EDWARDS AND KYLE ORLAND
In a supreme sense of irony, it seems this article was quickly taken down when the subject of the article commented that Ars had fabricated (or hallucinated) quotes from him. So disappointing to see from Ars Technica.
Context:
https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards.1511650/
https://mastodon.social/@nikclayton/116065459933532659
Archived article (containing the fabricated quotes), for what it’s worth: https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/
Byline of likely AI article: BENJ EDWARDS AND KYLE ORLAND