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Ars Technica, the Condé Nast-owned technology outlet, fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after it retracted one of his stories over the use of AI-fabricated quotes.

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

His blog has AI scraping protections enabled,

Tell me more.

[–] Greddan@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's just one explanation among many. A more reasonable guess is that the Ars writer went to his webpage, then asked an AI extension, which would have total access to an open tabs, to pull out quotes or something similar. LLMs find it hard to not change text, even when instructed to.

There are more egregious examples of the author overestimating AI on the same blog post...