EDIT: The original link is now a 404 because Ars Technica apparently fabricated quotes, or possibly even generated the article in an extreme case of irony.
Here is some context:
https://mastodon.social/@nikclayton/116065459933532659
https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards.1511650/
Here is the original (partially fabricated) archived article if you still want to read it: 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/
FYI, the article was presumably taken down because many of the quotes turned out to have been fabricated, and they said they were investigating this. (I don’t think that they are trying to cover up anything, just that they have not gotten around to written an official response yet, given that this is a recent development.)
Ugh, that is utterly disappointing to see from Ars Technica. Here’s a bit of context about it: https://mastodon.social/@nikclayton/116065459933532659
Fortunately, the article was already archived, for what it’s worth: 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/
Of course they were fabricated, by an AI.
More seriously, which quotes were you referring to?
Sounds like the quotes from the person that wrote the blog
https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645
Yep, I saw in some other threads, Ars used AI which misquoted the original blog. “Hey, look at this weird unreliability caused by AI” says article riddled with AI unreliabilities.