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So can someone ELI5 all this for me please
Guy named Scott runs a GitHub (code base). AI agent (bot acting on behalf of a person, who has yet to come forward) submitted code. Scott rejects it. AI agent writes a "hit piece" (defaming article) on Scott.
Ars Technica, a trusted tech/science blog for nearly 25 years, writes a story about it, but the two authors who worked on it used AI to write the blog entry. Scott calls them out in the comments. At first he's accused of lying or being a bot, but people dig into it and realise Ars Technica made up their quotes.
An Ars Technica user calls them out in their forums for posting AI slop as journalism, and the site's founder and/or owner ("Aurich") promises an investigation, and deletes the article, removing all the comments, and shutting down discussion over what happened until his team can investigate internally.
(Worth noting that Ars Technica is owned by a conglomerate called Condé Nast which also owns Reddit; therefore, Condé Nast is involved with AI, and also other unsavoury stuff, but relevant to this, AI.)
Shutting down comments and banning everyone who calls them out is standard form for that place these days sadly; I deleted a 13 year old account there a few years back when they posted some godawful transphobic opinion peace and then they doubled down in the comments and started banning anyone who complained.
Shame, it really was once a good site, but the writers who are left are the ones who got high on their own supply years ago.
Aurich is the creative guy, Ken Fisher founded it.
ETA: Confirmed by Wikipedia.
Aurich is just the forum mod and graphics designer, not owner.
Though Reddit is a publicly traded company now, so they currently own only 30%.