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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)
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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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[โ€“] I_Jedi@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's the old way of doing news.

The new way of doing news is generating news that favors the news reporters' financial backers.

[โ€“] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 5 points 1 day ago

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