Working Class GamesFeb 23

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

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

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Update I found on bluesky is that benj edwards is admitting that it's his fault.

https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p

Whether kyle orland is involved? No idea, maybe not.

Benj Edwards (@benjedwards.com)

Sorry all this is my fault; and speculation has grown worse because I have been sick in bed with a high fever and unable to reliably address it (still am sick) I was told by management not to comment until they did. Here is my statement in images below https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

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