A story about an AI generated article contained fabricated, AI generated quotes.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260215215759/https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/

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[–] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Benj Edwards, one of the authors of the offending article, has posted an explanation, taking the blame and clearing his co-author.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    So he used an AI tool to “organize” references and it hallucinated crap that made it into the human-written article because he never reviewed the output for accuracy.

    This guy writes about AI for a living, he knows it hallucinates, and he even acknowledges the irony but never explains why he thought experimenting with AI was a good idea to begin with. Am I supposed to assume his judgment was impaired by being sick?

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