A story about an AI generated article contained fabricated, AI generated quotes.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260215215759/https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/
A story about an AI generated article contained fabricated, AI generated quotes.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260215215759/https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/
Benj Edwards, one of the authors of the offending article, has posted an explanation, taking the blame and clearing his co-author.
So he used an AI tool to “organize” references and it hallucinated crap that made it into the human-written article because he never reviewed the output for accuracy.
This guy writes about AI for a living, he knows it hallucinates, and he even acknowledges the irony but never explains why he thought experimenting with AI was a good idea to begin with. Am I supposed to assume his judgment was impaired by being sick?
Thanks for linking this. I hope ars makes it more visible. I’ll have to take Benj’s word.
That’s the thing with trust, hard to build, easy to burn.