Additional irony: The Al (not Gen Al, but still) in the pull quote having round-tripped from text to screenshot to OCR’d text:

“The irony of an Al reporter being tripped up by Al hallucination is not lost on me.”

(Not lost on me, since my current favorite feed reader from @tg defaults to an italic serif for block quotes, where the difference between uppercase I and lowercase l couldn’t be more obvious.)
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/14/ars-technica-benj-edwards-ai-fabricted-quotes

Ars Technica Fires Reporter Benj Edwards After He Published Story With AI-Fabricated Quotes

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

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