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

tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• sartalon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s been going downhill for some time. I think the Condé Nast investment pretty much killed it. The last 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.

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  • Hypx@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s one of the stages of enshittification. Unless we see hard changes to avoid further decay, Ars will inevitably get worse and and worse until it does become an “internet rot site.”

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    • sartalon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My point still stands.

      You can argue that EVERY fucking thing in the world is in the beginning , mid, or late stages of enshittification.

      But calling Ars an internet rot site, at this stage, is just fucking stupid.

      Are they as good as they were a few years ago? I honestly can’t say. I do know that there was better news a few years ago.

      The people at Ars have a tough job trying to navigate this modern world of oligarchs and autocracy, keeping their identity, while being owned by a corporation whose only job is to make money.

      They’ve done a pretty good fucking job, all things considered, of staying their course.

      A much better job than internet assholes who want to act elitist and whine when the world falls apart around them while they blame their fellow class instead of the controlling class.

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      • Hypx@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They are failing at basic editorial controls. This is not a “pretty good fucking job.” It is a sign of real decline.

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  • dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ars has been around since the mid 1990s.

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  • tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Simp a little harder for them next time. They appreciate it.

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    • sartalon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Weren’t you whining about other people making comments like this one to you?

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• jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Apparently you still can’t criticise the Holy Ars even when they put out AI slop articles, because that’s SPITTING ON BABIES

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• Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ars hasn’t been good in a few years. Fuck those people.

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• ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Downvotes are just samethink fuel.

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    • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah. In my experience upvotes/downvotes often have very little to do with the actual quality of a comment and more to do with how much it conforms with the current political zeitgeist of whatever community you’re participating in. The converse of this is that low quality comments telling people who disagree to go F themselves may also get upvotes. 

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      • jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, the “platonic ideal downvote” is only supposed to be used for content that “doesn’t contribute to the conversation” or whatever, but that is very often just not the case. There’s even research on how downvotes easily lead to a bandwagon effect: here’s a blog post on this, based on a research article.

        Hmm, I should probably create a Beehaw account and move over there. It’s a shame that account migration really isn’t a thing on Lemmy

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I read the comment, then judge the comment and use that judgement and voting scores to judge the community.

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