Ars Technica's AI Reporter Apologizes For Mistakenly Publishing Fake AI-Generated Quotes

Story About AI (Being Mean) Gets Pulled Because Journalist Used AI (That Made Mistakes)

On Friday the website Ars Technica published a story about Scott Shambaugh, a coder who made headlines in the tech world last week with his story about AI agents, and in particular one that he claims had written what he called a 'hit piece' on him and published it for the world to see.Shambaugh’s story is as interesting as it was horrifying. Agents are just the latest front in tech's war on our collective sanity, a type of AI that's essentially …

Ars Technica apologizes after publishing an article it says had fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool attributed to a source who did not say them

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An Ars Technica Reporter Blamed A.I. Tools for Fabricating Quotes in a Bizarre A.I. Story – Pixel Envy

On Thursday, Scott Shambaugh published a bizarre story about a rejected pull request from what seems to be an OpenClaw A.I. agent. The agent then generated a blog post accusing Shambaugh of “gatekeeping” contributions, and personally attacking him. After backlash in the pull request, the agent deleted its own post and generated an apology. Allegedly. The tale here is so extraordinary that it is irresponsible to take it at face value, as it seems…

Ars Technica's AI Reporter Apologizes For Mistakenly Publishing Fake AI-Generated Quotes

Sunday Ars Technica apologized for making Scott Shambaugh's week a little weirder. Last week Shambaugh learned an AI agent published a "hit piece" about him after he'd rejected the AI agent's pull request. (And that incident was covered by Ars Technica.) But then Shambaugh realized their article attributed quotes to him he hadn't said - that were presumably AI-generated. Sunday Ars Technica's founder/editor-in-chief admitted their article had in…

Developer targeted by AI hit piece warns society cannot handle AI agents that decouple actions from consequences

An AI agent wrote a hit piece on a developer who rejected its code. Days later, the agent is still running, a quarter of commenters believe it, and no one knows who's behind it. The case shows how autonomous agents turn character assassination into something that scales. The article Developer targeted by AI hit piece warns society cannot handle AI agents that decouple actions from consequences appeared first on The Decoder.