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After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by lemmydev2 to c/pulse_of_truth

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One developer is struggling with the social implications of a drive-by AI character attack.

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[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Watched the Ars conversation on this one. Aurich pulled the article after a firestorm in the comments, in which the quotes attributed to the AI agent operator appeared to be non-existent (the human subject of the article weighed in to corroborate this). Ars Technica has promised to investigate and update readers after the weekend.

[–] lemmydev2 2 points 6 months ago

There is some context to this: https://infosec.pub/post/42085217

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Yup, and Ars has followed up with an initial explanation at https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/ . Hopefully they'll go into greater detail about what happened.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

404 Error, well done!

Oddly enough, I got an archive link in my clipboard right now. You can thank me later...

https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/

[–] deliciEsteva@piefed.world 1 points 6 months ago

I will just thank you now. Thank you.