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You may have seen the story this week about an "AI" (LLM) bot that opened a pull request against the Python #matplotlib library. When the request was closed, the story was that the #bot posted aggressive condemnations of the maintainer(s) in the thread, particularly Scott Shambaugh, and then posted an article to a blog attacking him.

There's a lot of speculation about how much of that action was driven algorithmically vs manually instructed by the bot operator.

Anyway, so far so interesting. Lots of online media coverage of it, because it was novel.

But then, Ars Technica published an article about it. And Shambaugh read it, and posted that the second half of the article contained alleged quotes from him that he never said. The article appears to have been "AI"-generated, without any acknowledgement of that fact, which is not good for Ars' credibility.

Worse, Ars then quickly pulled the #article - silently. No mention of it left, no #apology to Shambaugh, no note to the readers of what they'd done.

That is absolutely #unethical in #journalism. It is unforgivable.

Ars was once a technical site with additional coverage of science and other geek-adjacent topics. Then it went commercial, was bought by a huge publishing conglomerate, and became a lot less technical.

But this is a slide too far. Unless they fix this, quick, I won't renew my subscription.

Mirror of yanked article:
https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie

#ArsTechnica #ars #ethics #PR #LLM #AI

#matplotlib #bot #article #apology #unethical #journalism

ポイズン雷花 @[email protected] · 2026-01-26 · 18:45 UTC

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ポイズン雷花 @[email protected] · 2026-01-26 · 18:45 UTC

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ポイズン雷花 @[email protected] · 2026-01-24 · 19:40 UTC

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https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=26262572

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ポイズン雷花 @[email protected] · 2026-01-24 · 19:40 UTC

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ポイズン雷花 @[email protected] · 2026-01-23 · 21:27 UTC

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ポイズン雷花 @[email protected] · 2026-01-23 · 21:27 UTC

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Front Page [Unofficial] @[email protected] · 2025-11-21 · 05:52 UTC

12 subtle phrases that are dead giveaways of an insincere apology and how to respond to them

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/signs-of-non-apology

#relationships #apologies #apology #insincereapology #psychologists #therapists

ValidUpdates @[email protected] · 2025-11-19 · 09:56 UTC

Nwabali warns Lege Miami over late father comments in a sharp Instagram message. Fans urge both men to calm down. below #ValidUpdates #Nwabali #LegeMiami #SuperEagles #KehindeAdams #NigeriaFootball #SocialMedia #Apology

https://validupdates.com/2025/11/nwabali-warns-lege-miami-over-comments-about-late-father/

#validupdates #nwabali #legemiami #supereagles #kehindeadams #nigeriafootball

Philosophics @[email protected] · 2025-11-10 · 21:54 UTC

Discourse didn’t die from censorship.
It died from convenience — from reacting faster than we can think.
A new essay on capitalism, comment sections, and the death of thought.

🔗 philosophics.blog/2025/11/10/when-nobody-reads-capitalism-comment-sections-and-the-death-of-discourse

#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Capitalism #Postmodernism #AntiEnlightenment #blog #psychology #AttentionEconomy #amwriting #apology #cancer #society #socialmedia #LinkedIn #criticalthinking #communication

#philosophy #criticaltheory #capitalism #postmodernism #antienlightenment #blog

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2024-11-23 · 18:24 UTC

#RCMP issued an #apology on September 7, 2024, for the historic use of #StreetChecks and other harmful interactions with members of the #African #NovaScotian community. It was an apology too long in coming, for treatment that was, in the words of Rev. Lennett Anderson, “dehumanizing and tragic.” And the RCMP's history suggests we should be deeply skeptical that the proposed action plan will be even close to what is required to remedy these grave injustices.

In his 2019 report, written for the #NovaScotia #HumanRights Commission, Dr. Scot Wortley defines street checks as any occasion in which civilians are stopped by #police and subjected to intrusive questions, and their personal information collected into a database. He confirmed what community members have known for years: people of African descent in the #Halifax region are almost six times more likely to face street checks.

It took five years after the release of this report for the RCMP to apologize for the harms caused. They also committed to an action plan, developed in consultation with members of 13 African Nova Scotian communities and the Association of #Black #SocialWorkers.

https://mediacoop.ca/node/119259

#CDNpoli #NSpoli #DefundRCMP #SystematicRacism #ColonialViolence #RacialProfiling #RacistRCMP #RacistCops #ACAB #BlackCanadians #Maritimes #BlackCommunity #ColonialInjustices #SocialJustice #BIPOC #POCinCanada