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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. | |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. | ||
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{{ | [[Ars Technica]] published an article<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name|title=Retraction: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name|author=Ars Staff|date=2026-02-13|work=ArsTechnica|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/|archive-date=2026-02-13|url-status=live}}</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=Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations|url=https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations|first=Ken|last=Fisher|date=2026-02-15|work=ArsTechnica}}</ref> explaing what happened. | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
{{ | 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 |author=@crabby-rathbun |date=2026-02-10 |title=[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T |url=https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132 |url-status=live |website=[[GitHub]]}}</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 |author=@crabby-rathbun |date=2026-02-11 |title=Commit 83b7d60 |url=https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/83b7d600b00665af578074defb2040e7ba4f188b |url-status=live |work=[[GitHub]]}}</ref>, and also Scott wrote a blog post. <ref>{{Cite web|title=An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me |url=https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me|first=Scott|last=Shambaugh|date=2026-02-12|work=The Shamblog}}</ref> | ||
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==Incident== | |||
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. | |||
== | ==Ars Technica's response== | ||
{{ | 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 |last=Edwards |first=Benj |date=2026-02-15 |title=Apology |url=https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p |url-status=live |work=[[Bluesky]] |quote=Sorry all this is my fault; and speculation has grown worse because I have been sick in bed with a high fever and unable to reliably address it (still am sick) I was told by management not to comment until they did. Here is my statement in images below arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/}}</ref> | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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