Taggart (@mttaggart@infosec.exchange)
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Attached: 1 image 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.** https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name

Hacker News.

Author blog about that.

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.

  • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Now what to do about the lazy writer who used AI to write the article and didn’t bother fact check it and make sure the quotes are real?

    Fixing the article, weekend or next week, doesn’t address the problem itself.