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.

  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I don’t care he’s “sick”. Too often, someone, instead of taking accountability, just throws anything to maybe shield themselves from actually being fully accountable. “I was sick”, “Family problems”, “A recent death”, “The planets were misaligned that day”, etc.

    I find it to still be cowardice, to not stand by and own what you said, even if it was wrong. He used AI and got caught. And going forward, I’ll be treating Ars Technica as an unreliable AI-generated “news source”.

    • Kilgore Trout@feddit.it
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      7 hours ago

      The whole purpose of a news reporter is kind of to get their news right.
      If they can’t do that, their service is worthless.

      • I_Jedi@lemmy.today
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        7 hours ago

        That’s the old way of doing news.

        The new way of doing news is generating news that favors the news reporters’ financial backers.

    • ryper@lemmy.ca
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      12 hours ago

      Benj Edwards handles most of their AI coverage. I wouldn’t take his use of AI as a sign of what the rest of the staff is doing.