Link: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

I’ve talked to several reporters, and quite a few news outlets have covered the story. Ars Technica wasn’t one of the ones that reached out to me, but I especially thought this piece from them was interesting (since taken down – here’s the archive link). They had some nice quotes from my blog post explaining what was going on. The problem is that these quotes were not written by me, never existed, and appear to be AI hallucinations themselves.

Super disappointing for Arstechnica here.

Like, how does that even happen?

Update for those who care: They are promising an article about this but all evidence points to them desperately memory holing this incident.

Meanwhile, the quality of articles on Fridays especially has never been lower.

Tbf, they did also fire the author