https://consumerrights.wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=BasedActivist312Consumer Rights Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-04-28T23:48:49ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.44.0https://consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=Ars_Technica_fake_AI_article_on_AI_accusations&diff=40284Ars Technica fake AI article on AI accusations2026-02-28T22:53:01Z<p>BasedActivist312: Main informations</p>
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|Company=Ars Tecnica<br />
|StartDate=2026-02-13<br />
|EndDate=2026-02-16<br />
|Status=Resolved<br />
|ProductLine=News Publication<br />
|Product=Article<br />
|ArticleType=Service<br />
|Type=Misinformation<br />
|Description=Ars Tecnica published a poorly AI written article, on a guy being bullied by an AI Agent. Later they pulled the article and clarified the situation.<br />
}}Ars Technica published an article<ref>{{Cite web |title=Article posted on Ars Technica |url=https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/}}</ref> on a programmer who was being "bullied" by an AI autonomous agent. The article was written using AI, with non-existant quotations. The article was later removed and Ars Technica published an editor's note<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ars Technica retraction |url=https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations}}</ref> explaing what happened.<br />
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==Background==<br />
Scott Shambaugh (contributor of the matplotlib library on github) created a good first issue/first contribution [check needed here of which one was it, seems to be the same for this repo], and got an [https://openclaw.ai OpenClaw] agent pull request<ref>{{Cite web |title=Github pull request |url=https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132}}</ref> as fix for the issue. The pull request got closed, the AI Agent got mad, so the AI Agent generated a post on its blog<ref>{{Cite web |title=AI Agents's post |url=https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/83b7d600b00665af578074defb2040e7ba4f188b |url-status=dead}}</ref>, and also Scott wrote a blog post. <ref>{{Cite web |first=The Shamblog |title=An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me |url=https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me}}</ref><br />
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==Incident==<br />
Ars Technica (authors listed are "Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland") wrote an article on the situation, but the hit piece's contained AI allucinated quotations.<br />
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== Ars Technica's response ==<br />
The Ars Technica's staff wrote an Editor’s Note explaining briefly explaining what happened. The article author also wrote an apology on BlueSky<ref>{{Cite web |title=Apology |url=https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p}}</ref><br />
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|Description=Ars Tecnica published a poorly AI written article, on a guy being bullied by an AI Agent. Later they pulled the article and clarified the situation.<br />
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