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/

#ArsTechnica #TechPress #TechReporting #TechMedia #AIslop #MJRathbun #AIagents #Journalism #AIcodingAgents #VibeCoding #VibeJournalism

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.

Ars Technica

В соцсетях рассказали, как спалить сайт, который продает и сливает ваши данные — достаточно написать в строке «Отчество» его название.

Софи Онлифановна.

#techmedia #kiberded

AI didn’t “do” the harm. People did. In Adam Conover’s AI safety interview, anthropomorphism becomes cover for bad design and worse accountability. Naming the alibi.
#AI #OpenAI #Accountability #TechMedia #AISafety #NarrativeControl

http://cherokeeschill.com/2026/01/28/anthropomorphism-as-alibi-ai-accountability/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Horizon Accord | Anthropomorphism | Accountability Alibi | AI Safety Discourse | Machine Learning

Anthropomorphic AI safety language misplaces agency, shielding designers and institutions from accountability for engineered harm.

Cherokee Schill | Insurance Agent & AI Ethics Researcher

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115827621936130046

This is such a stirling example of the exact kind of shitty, parroting, uncricital #tech coverage that got us here in the first place.

You know, "here" being a place where a bunch of companies with nary a product between them run economies bigger than whole countries, headed up by idiots who think they're God.

This happened because hokey claims like this is the growth story that lets them overvalue their stock by a factor of 10.

Fuck you right in the neck, @arstechnica & all of #TechMedia

TechSpot: AnandTech’s 27-year archive has vanished, but someone uploaded a 74 GB backup. “The thousands of articles from AnandTech’s 27-year history are still accessible through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, but they are no longer properly indexed…. Fortunately, a complete unofficial 74 GB archive is available for download, and users are attempting to clone the site at […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/08/techspot-anandtechs-27-year-archive-has-vanished-but-someone-uploaded-a-74-gb-backup/

3 things Linux needs to have before I can make the swap

I love Linux, but I can't take the plunge just yet.

XDA

This obsession the mainstream tech media is having with the softlaunch of a general steamOS image is bizarre. There's nothing steamOS does that can't be achieved with a lot of other distros, Fedora, uBlue/bazzite and arch friends.

Does even the IT media need their handheld by some corporate sponsor to do anything?

#steamOS #steamdeck #linux #fedora #ublue #bazzite #tech #techmedia #linuxgaming #gaming

Gosh, this episode of #EdZitron's ( @Zitron ) #BetterOffline should be mandatory for school classes and family gatherings. How #techMedia is ignoring the #RotEconomy, how #Apple is profiting from its #AppStore actively harming customers, and what we should be fighting for pushing against #Meta, #Google, #Microsoft & Co.
https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/what-were-fighting-for
What We're Fighting For - Better Offline

In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the how the tech media misses the stories that hurt billions of people every day - and how deep down, most people really do like technology and miss when it wasn’t so actively harmful. --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/  Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

How The Tech Media Can Beat The Rot Economy | Better Offline

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-were-fighting-for/id1730587238?i=1000694611783

#BetterOffLine

What We're Fighting For

#EdZitron walks you through how #techmedia miss the stories that hurt billions of people daily

What We're Fighting For

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 02/21/2025 · 34m

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