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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.

  • mech@feddit.orgEnglish
    104·
    3 hours ago

    This is bad enough that a serious company that wanted to salvage their reputation properly might wanna consider putting in some weekend overtime.

    Frankly, no. Correcting an article about a blog post isn’t important enough to force your workers to sacrifice their weekends.
    That should be reserved to life-and-death emergencies.