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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
mayintoronto@beige.party ("May Likes Toronto") wrote:

This is really funny.
Ars Technica retracted their piece on the AI bot publishing a hit piece on the open source maintainer (Scott Shambaugh) because......... they published AI-made-up quotes from Scott.

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

Anyway, here's the original piece by Scott.
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

Edit: See Ethan's reply below for context. The author published a retraction.