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Ars Technica fake AI article on AI accusations

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Ars Technica published an article[1] 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[2] explaing what happened.

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 OpenClaw agent pull request[3] 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[4], and also Scott wrote a blog post. [5]

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[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Article posted on Ars Technica". {{cite web}}: |archive-url= requires |archive-date= (help)
  2. ↑ "Ars Technica retraction".
  3. ↑ "Github pull request".
  4. ↑ "AI Agents's post".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ↑ "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me". {{cite web}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
  6. ↑ "Apology".


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