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Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story (infosec.exchange)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Hacker News.

Author blog about that.

AI generated quotes in a story about AI clanker writing a blog post about a human developer because they didn't accept their code contributions.

How deep can someone go here.

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[โ€“] TAG@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

In the US, libel requires you to prove that the writer knew that what they were writing is not true and that they did it to hurt you. Doing lazy research and trusting an AI is not going to meet that standard.

[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

They didn't do lazy research. They didn't do any research, the lazy bums. They put a pump into an AI copy and pasted the output into a blog post and hit post. The only way they could have done less work is if they'd integrated the AI into the website to save them have to do the copy and paste.