Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 18 hours agoThat used to be the standard…
I highly doubt that. how would that even work? a third-party to the publisher would have to check every statement before the issue goes to print. I can’t imagine this happening for anything that is not research papers or official reports.
but I happy to learn something new.
This can and should be done internally. Why would it need to be a third party? Any publisher that cares about their reputation anyway. Fact-checkers are a real thing. They routinely follow up on interviews to make sure authors aren’t bullshitting.
rodneylives@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Key is, used to be. Ars Technica is one of the best such magazines out there, but even their margins have to be razor thin. To stay at the top of Google search results you have to update super frequently. (Source: this Metafilter post: metafilter.com/…/Ars-Technica-Pulls-AI-Article-Wi…)