One developer is struggling with the social implications of a drive-by AI character attack.
Watched the Ars conversation on this one. Aurich pulled the article after a firestorm in the comments, in which the quotes attributed to the AI agent operator appeared to be non-existent (the human subject of the article weighed in to corroborate this). Ars Technica has promised to investigate and update readers after the weekend.
There is some context to this: https://infosec.pub/post/42085217
Yup, and Ars has followed up with an initial explanation at https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/ . Hopefully they’ll go into greater detail about what happened.
404 Error, well done!
Oddly enough, I got an archive link in my clipboard right now. You can thank me later…
I will just thank you now. Thank you.