RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645
welp, there goes Ars Technica as a reliable and useful website / source for me to ever read. Wow.
What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.
UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.
@andypiper I understand it was deleted? I wonder if anybody has a cached version or link to the archive.org version?
I'd be curious to know which reporter was responsible for that. If Ars really published an article with AI-fabricated quotes then they have some real answering to do. I hope they're not just going to bury this under the rug and hope it goes away.
@jzb @andypiper Archived link, from the original thread: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@andypiper will nothing be reliable anymore? T-T
@andypiper @mttaggart So now Ars is printing AI slop and pretending it’s written by a journalist…
@andypiper on a related note, it's actually kinda shocking for me to see just how many open-source projects have added those AI prompt files to their repos, and I mean real prompts, not the kind I did
@andypiper on a related note, it's actually kinda shocking for me to see just how many open-source projects have added those AI prompt files to their repos, and I mean real prompts, not the kind I did
@andypiper @mttaggart I felt the place became irredeemably icky when they rushed to publish this:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/nsa-leaker-ed-snowdens-life-on-ars-technica/
@andypiper fascinating story though (I mean the whole thing, not the ai generated article)
@andypiper betcha we’re gonna have to have discussions about this on WP. Places like Ars are often the guarantor of notability for a lot of software and tech articles, so if they lose their credibility…
@andypiper Indeed, Bookmark deleted.
