Ars Technica, the Condé Nast-owned technology outlet, fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after it retracted one of his stories over the use of AI-fabricated quotes.
Ars Technica Fires Reporter Over AI-Generated Quotes
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limer@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Live by the sword 🗡️, die by the sword
AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 4 hours 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.
Greddan@feddit.org 4 hours 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.