Comment on Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
ooterness@lemmy.world 1 day agoI wouldn’t go that far. The article was posted Friday afternoon, and blew up over the weekend. Once the problem was known, the article was taken down quickly. We’ll see what happens when the editorial staff is back in the office in Monday.
terminatortwo@piefed.social 1 day ago
They already posted their response: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/
ryper@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Benj Edwards, one of the authors of the offending article, has posted an explanation, taking the blame and clearing his co-author.
underisk@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
So he used an AI tool to “organize” references and it hallucinated crap that made it into the human-written article because he never reviewed the output for accuracy.
This guy writes about AI for a living, he knows it hallucinates, and he even acknowledges the irony but never explains why he thought experimenting with AI was a good idea to begin with. Am I supposed to assume his judgment was impaired by being sick?
terminatortwo@piefed.social 1 day ago
Thanks for linking this. I hope ars makes it more visible. I’ll have to take Benj’s word.
That’s the thing with trust, hard to build, easy to burn.
ooterness@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ah, that’s new from this morning. Seems I was a few hours out of date.