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What's the highly editorialized title based on? In case it changes, the submitted title is currently: ArsTechnica seemingly using AI to write an article abo
by Jtsummers 9mo ago
What's the highly editorialized title based on?
In case it changes, the submitted title is currently:
ArsTechnica seemingly using AI to write an article about AI impersonation
The actual title is:
After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name
And the article is not about AI impersonation of anyone which makes AdmiralAsshat's title all the stranger.
- chrisjj 9mo agoI get a (childish) 404.
- Jtsummers 9mo agoSeems it was taken down. Archive link: 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/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechni...
- AdmiralAsshat 9mo agoMy submission was actually to a comment, in which the article's subject (i.e. the source article's author) showed up and declared that half the quotes attributed to him in the article did not exist in the referenced piece he wrote--suggesting that ArsTechnica's editors had used an AI to write the article, which hallucinated details. The article has now been pulled by Ars.
- Jtsummers 9mo agoThat makes a lot more sense, but just as a note for the future: HN replaces submission URLs with their canonical URL for most pages (they have disabled this for some where the site's canonical URL is reliably wrong). So when you submitted a link to the comment section, HN stripped that out and replaced it with the link to the article itself. It's done this for years.