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Attached: 1 image What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up. **UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.** https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name

Hacker News.

Author blog about that— Hacker News.

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.

  • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    9 hours ago

    As much as I would like to see that happen paying to fight a court case against Conde Nast just to get a retraction that they will stick somewhere invisible doesn’t really sound like a winning formula.

    • underisk@lemmy.mlEnglish
      72·
      9 hours ago

      Letting them win because you’ve canceled before even playing is also a losing formula. Even if they don’t get awarded monetary damages they can probably at least get their legal expenses covered.