Ars Technica is not "upholding journalistic integrity" they simply got caught and are trying to limit the damage.

What kind of loser publication uses ai to write articles? The prompt writers of the article were indicated as benj edwards and kyle orland.

Some context:
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

Ars deleted the article but it's on archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/

anyway, there's no excuse for using slop shit. If you don't use genAI slop you won't have such "mistakes" in your articles.

#slop #aiSlop #sloppySlopSlop #genAI #genAISucks #genAISuuuuuucks #ArsTechnica

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