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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.

  • tidderuuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5817·
    7 hours ago

    I pointed out a month ago that Ars Technica is a rot site and starting to be filled with AI regurgitated bullshit and got 80+ down votes and a few uneducated replies.

    Y’all feel better now?

    • sartalon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      316·
      6 hours ago

      No, the issue we are talking about today and calling Ars an “internet rot site” is a huge leap. Yeah, they post shit articles from Wired and such, (they are owned by Conde Nast), but their core writers are still great and have plenty of good articles.

      You want credit for what? Over exaggerating an issue then whining about it?

      You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and then spitting on the baby. It makes no sense.

      • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        6 hours ago

        It’s been going downhill for some time. I think the Condé Nast investment pretty much killed it. The last unnecessary site redesign that didn’t work correctly and made things unreadable was the last straw for me. I took it out of my rotation of “daily reads” and haven’t missed it.

      • dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz
        93·
        6 hours ago

        @sartalon @technology Yeah, I have a lot more trust in the reputation that Ars has built over a decade of solid reliable tech journalism than I do in a random matplotlib maintainer - I’ve interacted with maintainers before. They’re not wrong about agents, but not sure how that’s any different from any human doing the same.

        • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.worldEnglish
          8·
          6 hours ago

          Ars has been around since the mid 1990s. Granted the sale to Conde Nast changed them slowly over time, as well as broadening the focus significantly, but it was likely a case of grow or die since the PC nerd market isn’t anywhere near what it used to be.

    • ageedizzle@piefed.caEnglish
      78·
      7 hours ago

      Stuff like this makes me very sympathetic to lemmy instances that disable downvotes