Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes

>The Condé Nast-owned Ars Technica

I despise Conde Nast

The crazy part to me is that even here on HN there are people who still insist that LLMs don't fabricate things or otherwise lie.

I wonder if these are the same people who 3-4 years ago were insisting putting 20 characters onto a blockchain (ie an NFT, which was just a URL) was the next multi-billion dollar business.

Sure there is such a thing as a naysayer but there are also people think all forms of valid criticism are just naysaying.

Are Technicas editors fabricate misleading headlines all the fucking time.

The editors are the ones ultimately responsible for what they publish. Yet they’re not taking responsibility.

> while working from bed with a fever and very little sleep," he "unintentionally made a serious journalistic error" as he attempted to use an "experimental Claude Code-based AI tool" to help him

Oh right, being ill is what caused the error. I can bet that if you start verifying the past content from this author, you will see similar AI slop. Either that or he has been always ill with very little sleep.

The role "reporter" deserves very little credence in AI now. The public might be better off if they get their information on AI from ChatGPT.

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In a post gamergate world dunno why people still rate Conde Nasty

So they fired that author after the author had publicly apologized on Blue sky.