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So Ars Technica "wrote" an "article" about the "AI" bot instructed to puke some slop pretending to be discriminated against, and the Ars article contained "comments" from a developer that were not in the linked article, and were, in fact, entirely made up, 99% likely by "AI", possibly because the Ars author instructed the "AI" to summarize the linked article, and now Ars has deleted the "article" and comments?

How ever could this happen to a for-profit website owned by a giant media conglomerate who also sold their content rights to "AI" companies? It will always remain a mystery.

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Scott Shambaugh here. None of the quotes you attribute to me in the second half of the article are accurate, and do not exist at the source you link. It appears that they themselves are AI hallucinations. The irony here is fantastic.

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Attached: 1 image What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up. **UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.** https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name

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