BeepFeb 14

Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

https://lemmus.org/post/20179042

Show threadmortoFeb 14
It would be nice if he decides to sue ars technica for that. Writers and publisher need to learn the hard way that you can’t use ai and trust that for publishing stuff that needs factual coherence. If not by ethics, let it be from fear of lawsuits.
Show threadtempestFeb 14
Sue them for what? He would have to prove damages and they took it down.
Show threadunderiskFeb 14
Libel. Taking it down doesn’t undo the damage to reputation which libel is concerned with.
Show threadTAG
In the US, libel requires you to prove that the writer knew that what they were writing is not true and that they did it to hurt you. Doing lazy research and trusting an AI is not going to meet that standard.
Feb 14 at 9:54pmWeb
Show threadEcho DotFeb 15
They didn’t do lazy research. They didn’t do any research, the lazy bums. They put a pump into an AI copy and pasted the output into a blog post and hit post. The only way they could have done less work is if they’d integrated the AI into the website to save them have to do the copy and paste.