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Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

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@tidderuuf@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

I’m not taking all the credit but I do hope those people who didn’t believe me in the past could rightfully take this comment, print it, pull down their pants and shove it up their ass. It’s time to hold journalism with a higher standard and this idea that “well they do alright” and “it was only once” is bullshit sliding into madness. Just the facts, folks.

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@just_another_person@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

The problem with your attitude towards this is that these companies are forcing “AI” down everyone’s throat. It’s a requirement now to churn out more bullshit than humanly possible. This person was simply fired because they didn’t catch the false information,not because they used the tools forced upon them.

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@mrmaplebar@fedia.io on fedia.io Open parent

To be fair to Ars Technica, that doesn't sound like the case to me. The "journalist" in question seems to be suggesting that this was their own bad judgment to use AI to "find relevant quotes" from the source material. Having said that, there's also a senior editor on the by-line who hasn't been held accountable for clearly failing to do their job, which as I understand it, is to read, edit and verify the contents of the article. So in a way Ars seems to have a problem with quality whether or not the use of AI was mandated.

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@just_another_person@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

Ars is owned by Conde Nast who has multiple whistleblowers saying AI is being forced on them. Think that’s kind of relevant.

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Railcar8095 in !technology

@Railcar8095@lemmy.world · Mar 03

Most companies have AI forced, either directly or indirectly (“you need to double your output, AI can help…” kind of thing)

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