At least they owned up to it instead of pretending it didn’t happen like other “news” organizations in the past.
ryper@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Itwasntme223@discuss.online 4 days ago
ryper@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
At least they owned up to it instead of pretending it didn’t happen like other “news” organizations in the past.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t care he’s “sick”. Too often, someone, instead of taking accountability, just throws anything to maybe shield themselves from actually being fully accountable. “I was sick”, “Family problems”, “A recent death”, “The planets were misaligned that day”, etc.
I find it to still be cowardice, to not stand by and own what you said, even if it was wrong. He used AI and got caught. And going forward, I’ll be treating Ars Technica as an unreliable AI-generated “news source”.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 days ago
The whole purpose of a news reporter is kind of to get their news right.
If they can’t do that, their service is worthless.
I_Jedi@lemmy.today 3 days ago
That’s the old way of doing news.
The new way of doing news is generating news that favors the news reporters’ financial backers.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 days ago
I signed up to Ars 9 years ago. It is painful to transparently witness the decay.
ryper@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Benj Edwards handles most of their AI coverage. I wouldn’t take his use of AI as a sign of what the rest of the staff is doing.
boaratio@lemmy.world 3 days ago
He did own it.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I disagree, clearly. Owning would be “yes, I messed up, I used AI to write my process and didn’t bother reviewing any of it, I took shortcuts”. That and just that. Using “I was feeling sick” is deflecting blame instead of owning it.
boaratio@lemmy.world 3 days ago
He’s saying he didn’t respond sooner because his bosses told him not to until they released a statement, then be got such which it’s why he didn’t respond sooner. We’re saying the same thing bub.