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

• tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As much as I would like to see that happen paying to fight a court case against Conde Nast just to get a retraction that they will stick somewhere invisible doesn’t really sound like a winning formula.

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  • underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Letting them win because you’ve canceled before even playing is also a losing formula. Even if they don’t get awarded monetary damages they can probably at least get their legal expenses covered.

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    • jve@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They pulled the article. What more are you hoping for?

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      • xvapx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        could maybe force Ars to put out a retraction

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• Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How about getting them to put an “e” after the “s” in their name instead?

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• TAG@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In the US, libel requires you to prove that the writer knew that what they were writing is not true and that they did it to hurt you. Doing lazy research and trusting an AI is not going to meet that standard.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    She didn’t do lazy research. He didn’t do any research. They put a pump into an AI copy and pasted the output into a blog post and hit post. The only way they could have done less work is if they’d integrated the AI into the website to save them have to do the copy and paste.

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• Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They put out a retraction: arstechnica.com/…/editors-note-retraction-of-arti…

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