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Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story (infosec.exchange)
submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Hacker News.

Author blog about that— Hacker News.

AI generated quotes in a story about AI clanker writing a blog post about a human developer because they didn't accept their code contributions.

How deep can someone go here.

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[–] dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

@sartalon @technology Yeah, I have a lot more trust in the reputation that Ars has built over a decade of solid reliable tech journalism than I do in a random matplotlib maintainer - I’ve interacted with maintainers before. They’re not wrong about agents, but not sure how that’s any different from any human doing the same.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Ars has been around since the mid 1990s. Granted the sale to Conde Nast changed them slowly over time, as well as broadening the focus significantly, but it was likely a case of grow or die since the PC nerd market isn't anywhere near what it used to be.