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After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name (EDIT: See description and comments regarding 404) (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by brianpeiris@lemmy.ca to c/programming@programming.dev

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EDIT: The original link is now a 404 because Ars Technica apparently fabricated quotes, or possibly even generated the article in an extreme case of irony.

Here is some context:
https://mastodon.social/@nikclayton/116065459933532659
https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards.1511650/

Here is the original (partially fabricated) archived article if you still want to read it: https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/

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[–] Damarus@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Blog post about this event by the someone in question: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

“AI agents can research individuals, generate personalized narratives, and publish them online at scale,” Shambaugh wrote. “Even if the content is inaccurate or exaggerated, it can become part of a persistent public record.”
– Ars Technica, misquoting me in “After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name“