In covering the story of an AI agent apparently writing a hit piece blog post about someone who declined its GitHub merge request, Ars Technica posted a story that included fabricated quotes created by AI.

It's slop all the way down.

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

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