Baldur BjarnasonMar 3

"Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes"

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes

Seeing a lot of people assume that this reporter got fired for making one mistake during a sick day, something most people could see themselves doing

I think it's safe to assume that the reporter's version of events downplayed his culpability to a substantial degree

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

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Show thread🔥Cassandra🔥Mar 3
@baldur I don’t know why you’d need a tool to “extract relevant verbatim source material” anyway. How long and long ago was the interview? The interviewer has no idea what the interviewee said? Took no notes, can’t listen back at 2X?
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@Cassandra @baldur Oh there was no interview. It is much funnier and stupider than that. These were quotes "from" a website.
Mar 3 at 7:34pmWeb