Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter Over AI-Generated Quotes

• Greddan@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece…

  It’s all in here.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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…

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