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Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

Wxfisch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

In typical Ars fashion, the editorial team appears to be looking into what happened and are being fairly open about at things: arstechnica.com/…/journalistic-standards.1511650/

I will be very disappointed if this was BenJ or Dan using AI to write their article since both have had really good pieces in the past, but it doesn’t sound like this is some Ars wide shift at this point. Like all things, it makes sense that it will take time for them to investigate this, Aurich (the Ars community lead and graphic designer) was clear that with this happening on a Friday afternoon and a US holiday on Monday, it’s likely to be into next week before they have anything they can share.

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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
What do they have to investigate? Did one of them accidentally get an AI to write the article and then accidentally post the article, like they just fell on the keyboard and accidentally typed in a prompt? Come on.

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- Wxfisch@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I would hazard to guess they are investigating how the use of AI was missed in their editorial process, how they missed the incorrect quotes, and who violated their journalistic standards by using an AI to directly write article text since it’s a coauthored piece.
  
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d13@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Honestly, this whole thing surprises me. I have a lot of respect for Ars Technica. I hope they clean this up and prevent further issues in the future.

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lol_idk@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
They know how and why it happened, they are taking the weekend to investigate how to best take their foot from their mouths without eating too much shit

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- sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This shouldn’t be a problem anatomically, it’s hard to eat anything with a foot in your mouth anyway
  
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deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
BenJ had coauthor credit on it.

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ryper@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Benj and Kyle were the authors of the article; Dan’s name wasn’t on it.

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Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Benj was an author: web.archive.org/…/after-a-routine-code-rejection-…

Though in the Ars response they say “Scott’s post”, so I’m confused.

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- PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Scott is the subject of the article, who was misquoted by Ars and maligned by the slopbot.
  
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Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’m betting it’s definitely Ben since he is pretty pro-AI

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