Comment on Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 1 day agoI think their response is perfectly reasonable. They took the article down and replaced it with an explanation of why, and posted an extremely visible retraction with open comments on their front page. They even reached out and apologized to the person who had the made-up quote attributed to them.
There are so many other outlets that would have just quietly taken the original article down without notice, or perhaps even just left it up.
TheOneCurly@feddit.online 1 day ago
But like what am I supposed to do when senior ai reporter Benj writes his next piece? Ars works because the writers are generally experienced in the topics and do analysis and provide insight. Do we just accept that chatgpt is the new head ai writer with a meat puppet? They need to address the trust issue before this is resolved.
zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Their retraction article makes it crystal clear that their reporters are not allowed to use AI output in articles at all, unless it’s explicitly for demonstration purposes. That rule was broken. They took appropriate action, apologized, and made a commitment to do better.
I, frankly, believe them - ars is the news outlet I’ve frequented longer than any other for a reason. I understand if it’s going to take more for you to believe them, but it’s just one mistake. It’s also not clear to me what they could have done in this situation that would have felt like enough to you? Were you hoping for a play-by-play of who entered what into ChatGPT, or a firing or something?
I’m also not sure I’d consider the saga over. It wouldn’t overly surprise me if at some point this week we get a longer article going into more detail about what happened.