After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name
web.archive.org
One developer is struggling with the social implications of a drive-by AI character attack.

Likely AI, because otherwise they just made up some quotes on their own. Either is egregious journalistic malpractice. But we all know which one it was.

The maintainer reported in the comments of the article that he is exclusively misquoted in the 2nd half of the article (including misquoted calling himself a “gatekeeper”).

Edit: I did confirm all misquotes from archive versions of the blog and ars article. But I also read the blog yesterday and have memory and it hasn’t changed

Edit 2: Ars took down the article, replaced with archive.org. And here’s the blog archive version

https://web.archive.org/web/20260213082753/https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

  • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Getting a “429 Too Many Requests” error.

    But if true- this is depressing. I’ve always viewed Ars as a sort of standard bearer when it comes to tech news. Other outlets like The Verge do a lot of “best [product]” articles with affiliate links, and while I understand why, and don’t think they’re being dishonest, it just feels cheap. Seeing Ars fail at basic fact-checking is truly depressing.