Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒Feb 20

This needs to be shared on its own for visibility. It’s more difficult to trust Ars Technica after this. I DO respect them for publishing this but…

Frankly it’s getting increasingly difficult to trust any news source.

In the journalism world, fabricated quotes is an egregious offense.
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.

Ars Technica
Show threadWiredfireFeb 20

@killyourfm It’s shouting into the wind, I appreciate, but the simple rule should be that any *actual* journalist just shouldn’t use AI. At all. Ever. At least not for anything relating to an article.

I remember being at uni in 2000 and watching the journalism course student and dreading for the state of News once they were in charge. Now they are, and I was right to worry.

Show threadSeth of the FediverseFeb 20
@wiredfire @killyourfm yes this journalist needs to be axed.
Show threadWiredfire
@phillycodehound @killyourfm And thrown into the Total Perspective Vortex!
Feb 20 at 8:28pmWeb