Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter Over AI-Generated Quotes

limer@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You should read the guy’s explanation. It legitimately seems like an honest mistake, but given his work was specifically geared towards avoiding a situation like that I’m not surprised he was let go.

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  • Greddan@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The guy had several explanations rolled into one so it seems more like a dishonest lie than an honest mistake. The guy the article was about had a decent explanation of how it happened though. His blog has AI scraping protections enabled, so when the so called journalist asked an AI to write an article for him citing the blog post, the AI couldn’t access it, and did what AI do, made shit up.

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    • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      His blog has AI scraping protections enabled,

      Tell me more.

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      • Greddan@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece…

        It’s all in here.

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    • hexagonwin@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      lmao, didn’t know the ‘ai’ tool is that stupid to not handle website blocks/exceptions…

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      • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not quite like that. The tools used to scrape the web for training data couldn’t access the site to stacks the data, so it’s not encoded in the model.

        The query interface for the model just hallucinates when there’s a ‘vacuum’.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ars saw his old explanation and conducted an internal review that took weeks, and found it lacking. His new explanation is… He isn’t giving one, after being asked for comment.

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  • wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think he’s more a libality at this point.

    Not caring for if something is true ("reckless regard for the truth"), opens up libel lawsuits.

    You cant just publish made up quotes on reporting a virtual hit piece on someone’s reputation.

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