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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— Hacker News.

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.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      Ars is owned by Condé Nast which also owns Reddit, so “AI slop” is part of their business.

      I still trust Ars Technica (I don’t like them much but I do trust them… it’s complicated) and I trust Aurich (their founder/editor-in-chief) to act fairly. They don’t work on the weekends or holidays though, so he’s not touching it until Tuesday, though.

        • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Ah, okay. You just see Aurich in every other article. He’s like the head man. No idea what his real name is. The name Ken Fisher isn’t unknown to me, but neither is it familiar.

          I guess I could have looked at Wikipedia. I guess I never really cared that much to read up on it. I’ve just been reading them off and on for, I don’t even remember how long. Even had an account once.

      • tidderuuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        54·
        7 hours ago

        I was downvoted and insulted by this very Lemmy community when I said this just a month ago. Thank God people are starting to realize it now.

        • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          5 hours ago

          You know what’s cool about Lemmy? You can take away the voting aspect. Not from others, but from what you see. I see the arrows, for example, so I could up- or down-vote you, but I don’t see how many other people have done the same. I literally just see arrows. And I sort by new, both in threads and on the timeline. So someone downvoted to oblivion still appears to me right in the timeline with no affect. It’s a shame this isn’t the default. That way, for it to be apparent that someone’s opinion is disliked, people would have to do more than click on arrows, they’d have to reply and go back and forth, put themselves out there.

          I upvote helpfulness and kindness, downvote rudeness, and actually don’t vote on like 99% of what I see. I think voting made the social Internet worse. JMO