Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

View all comments ➔Show context ➔

ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
2 months

Then maybe they shouldn’t be using these tools in the first place

I absolutely agree, they should not write articles with LLMs. I’m just saying they’re not absolved of basic journalistic responsibility because they’re instructed to use LLM tools.

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

<p>This is a <a href="https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExN3N0NmhuODNib3d3Nzg0OHU2bTFqMXAzNW42Y2JsOTVmenNsNG8ycSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZ

Create a post

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

Visibility: Public

This community is visible to everyone.

3.65K users / Day
8.54K users / Week
15.2K users / Month
30.9K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
84K subscribers
8.34K Posts
241K Comments
Modlog