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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened (theshamblog.com)

submitted 12 hours ago by Midnitte@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I’ve talked to several reporters, and quite a few news outlets have covered the story. Ars Technica wasn’t one of the ones that reached out to me, but I especially thought this piece from them was interesting (since taken down – here’s the archive link). They had some nice quotes from my blog post explaining what was going on. The problem is that these quotes were not written by me, never existed, and appear to be AI hallucinations themselves.

Super disappointing for Arstechnica here.

Like, how does that even happen?

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca -4 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Isn’t “theshamblog” AI generated? So in this case, including the Ars article it’s referencing?

The pieces are dated 2024.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

The date on this blog post:

13 February 2026

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 7 points 10 hours ago

Isn’t this comment ai generated? It makes absolutely no sense lol

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 7 points 10 hours ago

What makes you think the blog is AI generated? Even if it was (which I don't think it is) the Arstechnica article 'quoted' quotes that weren't there in the first place, so it would still be problematic on their end.

Also, where are you seeing that it's dated 2024? For example, the linked post shows as published on February 13th 2026 for me.

I'm confused and I'm wondering if maybe we're looking at two different things, haha. Is anyone else seeing what this person is seeing? I wonder what's up

[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 6 points 10 hours ago

I believe it's the personal blog of the dev in question, Scott. I don't have any reason to believe it's AI, though he does mention using ChatGPT I don't see it suggested he has AI write his blogs.