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/
@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.
In Australia, Journalism was replaced by Churnalism decades ago ...
Now the laid off or retired Journalists write for a few independent sources and are only found on Social Media ... and/or emails to supporters ...
And because our main stream media only repeats what somebody somewhere sometime said ... is known as the Media Streaming Misinformation ...
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