#arstechnica — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #arstechnica, aggregated by home.social.
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#ArsTechnica says "The suborbital space tourism industry is on life support".
Well, duh. Some ridiculously high price for 7 minutes of microgravity (or whatever) is bullshit. You don't even reach the Kármán line (100 km)! They redefined some other threshold at 80 km just so you could say you went to space. Hint: if you have to redefine a common, long-agreed term, you're not adhering to the letter or the spirit of the law/guideline.
It's orbit or GTFO.
#orbit #suborbital #SpaceTourism #GTFO #KármánLine #VirginGalactic #BlueOrigin
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#ArsTechnica Lunar Gateway 2/2:
".. Northrop confirmed .. issue .. “Using NASA-approved processes, Northrop Grumman is completing repairs to HALO after a manufacturing irregularity, .."
"ESA .. “.. the .. issue was understood to be technically manageable and did not constitute a showstopper for I‑HAB, which was, in any case, in better conditions than HALO from [a] corrosion point of view,”"
24.4.2026
#Artemis #ESA #LOPG #LunarGateway #NASA #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight
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#ArsTechnica Lunar Gateway 1/2:
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Well, this is embarrassing: The Lunar Gateway’s primary modules are corroded
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"“Preliminary findings indicate that the issue likely results from a combination of factors.”"24.4.2026
#Artemis #ESA #LOPG #LunarGateway #NASA #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight
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Ars Technica bravely unveils their AI newsroom #policy, which is essentially a list of things they promise not to do, like a child announcing they won't eat crayons anymore. 🤖✏️ Meanwhile, the actual news is just sitting there, wondering when it will get some attention instead. 🙄📉
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/04/our-newsroom-ai-policy/ #AInewsroom #ArsTechnica #mediaethics #journalism #HackerNews #ngated -
Un robot humanoïde bat facilement les humains en semi-marathon, établissant un nouveau record
La Presse https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/insolite/2026-04-20/chine/un-robot-humanoide-bat-le-record-du-monde-humain-au-demi-marathon.php
Arstechnica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/robot-runner-handily-beats-humans-in-half-marathon-setting-new-record/
#tech #robot #humanoïde #science #course #sports #marathon #Chine #média #arstechnica -
📰 The underground story of Cobra, the 1980s’ illicit handmade computer — #ArsTechnica
❝In their poor, Communist country, Romania’s computer curious built an underground industry.
“It was a highly illegal operation. And we knew this very well,” Moldovanu tells me…
If militia officers caught [them]… The authorities could seize the students’ electronics, make them pay fines, and could expel them from the university for starters.❞
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@rogeragrimes Great post and link and..... wow... no loging nor consent to tracking on that site #arstechnica
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Why reply to an article without reading it? Because, forum platforms motivate people to do so. Quantity matters more than quality,
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I'm afraid that my comment on #arstechnica will get hidden for low-score.
So, here's a link to it:
https://pnqk.me/y8y2smLet's view it without giving an ef about #downvotes!
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Techdirt: Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes. “There are several interesting layers here. The biggest being that AI isn’t an excuse to simply turn your brain off and no longer do rudimentary fact checking. At the same time, this can’t really be unwound from the fact that media ownership rushed to tightly integrate often under-cooked LLM models into an already very […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/15/techdirt-ars-fires-reporter-for-accidentally-using-fake-ai-quotes/ -
Stopping visiting #CondéNast sites has not been easy. #Slashdot and #ArsTechnica have been two of my most visited sites forever!
But after learning of their treatment of their union workers, I can't in good conscience give them my attention.
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Stopping visiting #CondéNast sites has not been easy. #Slashdot and #ArsTechnica have been two of my most visited sites forever!
But after learning of their treatment of their union workers, I can't in good conscience give them my attention.
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Stopping visiting #CondéNast sites has not been easy. #Slashdot and #ArsTechnica have been two of my most visited sites forever!
But after learning of their treatment of their union workers, I can't in good conscience give them my attention.
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Stopping visiting #CondéNast sites has not been easy. #Slashdot and #ArsTechnica have been two of my most visited sites forever!
But after learning of their treatment of their union workers, I can't in good conscience give them my attention.
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Stopping visiting #CondéNast sites has not been easy. #Slashdot and #ArsTechnica have been two of my most visited sites forever!
But after learning of their treatment of their union workers, I can't in good conscience give them my attention.
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Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes
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Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes
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Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes
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Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes
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Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes
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#ArsTechnica:
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Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding
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"America succeeds in space when American companies compete.""“.. biggest decision happened in the absence of a NASA administrator. And that decision was, instead of buying a Moon lander, we’re gonna buy a big rocket.”"
2.3.2026
#Artemis #JimBridenstine #HLS #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceX #Starship #ULA #USA
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Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
#HackerNews #Apple #Mac #Studio #RAMShortage #TechNews #Gadgets #ArsTechnica
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Re: Ars Technica's incident with the "AI"-written article that they silently yanked instead of transparently correcting ...
Ars did publish a separate, mostly-opaque "Yes, the article was AI-written, and we've dealt with this internally" article a few days later. That is not up to the transparency standards that good journalistic outlets demand.
Over the weekend, another website carried a story including quotes from the "reporter" at issue, revealing he had in fact been dismissed from Ars. I feel bad for the guy, but this is the minimum a media org can do in a situation like this, and it's the natural outcome of his actions. It's not like he was randomly laid off.
But Ars has still not been transparent, so... I have no regrets cancelling my subscription at Ars. The quality of their journalism, particularly deep technical stuff, has been suspect and declining for years, and this was really just the last straw.
#ArsTechnica #ethics #NewsEthics #journalism #JournalismEthics #AI #LLM #transparency
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You hate to see it!
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes
#ArsTechnica #Reporter #AI #Controversy #AISlop #Labor #Tech
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📰🤖 Ars Technica fired a reporter for using AI-generated quotes, proving once again that #robots are better at #creativity than humans. 🤦♂️ Who knew that “fake news” could get even faker? 📰🤷♀️
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes #ArsTechnica #AIgeneratedQuotes #FakeNews #HackerNews #ngated -
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes
#HackerNews #ArsTechnica #AIControversy #FabricatedQuotes #Journalism #Ethics
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English Wikipedia has pulled the plug on using archive.today links to archive websites after the site used scripts to involve users in a DDoS attack on a critical blog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-blacklist-archive-today-after-site-maintainer-ddosed-a-blog/#ArchiveDotToday #ArchiveDotIs #ArchiveToday #ArchiveIs #Wikipedia #DDoS #DistributedDenialOfServiceAttack #ArsTechnica
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NASA Is Making Big Changes to Speed Up the Artemis Program
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🔒💥 "AirSnitch" sounds like a Harry Potter character who broke into your Wi-Fi to tell everyone your cat memes are outdated. Meanwhile, Ars Technica continues the tradition of hyping tech apocalypse scenarios that no one asked for. 😱📡
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/new-airsnitch-attack-breaks-wi-fi-encryption-in-homes-offices-and-enterprises/ #AirSnitch #TechApocalypse #WiFi #Security #CatMemes #ArsTechnica #HackerNews #ngated -
Weekly output: social-media cleanup, Verizon’s phone-unlock waiting period, NASA’s Starliner report
This will be a travel-abbreviated workweek: Friday afternoon, I head to Dulles to start my journey to Spain for MWC Barcelona, still one of my favorite reasons to get on a plane for business. I’ll be there until March 5, so the next few days would be an excellent time to hit me up with any questions you have about the future of the wireless industry.
Meanwhile, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me this week about my continued struggles with my home WiFi, in which trying to pick out a good mesh-network option has required wrestling with unexpected national-security concerns.
2/17/2026: Social-media cleanses, Al Jazeera
The Arabic-language news channel had me in studio to offer some perspective about people implicated in the Epstein files trying to cleanse their social-media history. I said that if you’re sufficiently prominent, the Internet doesn’t forget things.
2/18/2026: Paid Off Your Phone Early? Verizon to Ease 35-Day Hold to Unlock It, PCMag
Four days after Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin reported that Verizon had begun requiring a 35-day waiting period to complete unlocking a phone paid off early (unless you made that payment in one of Verizon’s own stores with cash or a credit card’s chip or tap-to-pay options), I asked Verizon for comment. Hours later, I got a statement that the company was working to allow online payments to qualify for an immediate unlock–and then Verizon didn’t give Brodkin the same statement.
2/20/2026: Unpacking Starliner Failures, NASA Chief Delivers Scathing Assessment, PCMag
While I was at a space-industry conference in Tysons Thursday, NASA announced the findings of an investigation into everything that went wrong with Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule after its first and still only launch with astronauts aboard. So instead of writing up one of the panels at this event, I started reading the agency’s 311-page report, hit up Boeing PR for a comment and got in a call with a longtime observer and critic of NASA. Then I spent more of Friday than I’d planned on writing this post.
#ArsTechnica #Barcelona #Boeing #EpsteinFiles #JaredIsaacman #JonBrodkin #MWC #nasa #phoneUnlocking #rightToBeForgotten #socialMediaPosts #Starliner #verizon -
Weekly output: social-media cleanup, Verizon’s phone-unlock waiting period, NASA’s Starliner report
This will be a travel-abbreviated workweek: Friday afternoon, I head to Dulles to start my journey to Spain for MWC Barcelona, still one of my favorite reasons to get on a plane for business. I’ll be there until March 5, so the next few days would be an excellent time to hit me up with any questions you have about the future of the wireless industry.
Meanwhile, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me this week about my continued struggles with my home WiFi, in which trying to pick out a good mesh-network option has required wrestling with unexpected national-security concerns.
2/17/2026: Social-media cleanses, Al Jazeera
The Arabic-language news channel had me in studio to offer some perspective about people implicated in the Epstein files trying to cleanse their social-media history. I said that if you’re sufficiently prominent, the Internet doesn’t forget things.
2/18/2026: Paid Off Your Phone Early? Verizon to Ease 35-Day Hold to Unlock It, PCMag
Four days after Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin reported that Verizon had begun requiring a 35-day waiting period to complete unlocking a phone paid off early (unless you made that payment in one of Verizon’s own stores with cash or a credit card’s chip or tap-to-pay options), I asked Verizon for comment. Hours later, I got a statement that the company was working to allow online payments to qualify for an immediate unlock–and then Verizon didn’t give Brodkin the same statement.
2/20/2026: Unpacking Starliner Failures, NASA Chief Delivers Scathing Assessment, PCMag
While I was at a space-industry conference in Tysons Thursday, NASA announced the findings of an investigation into everything that went wrong with Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule after its first and still only launch with astronauts aboard. So instead of writing up one of the panels at this event, I started reading the agency’s 311-page report, hit up Boeing PR for a comment and got in a call with a longtime observer and critic of NASA. Then I spent more of Friday than I’d planned on writing this post.
#ArsTechnica #Barcelona #Boeing #EpsteinFiles #JaredIsaacman #JonBrodkin #MWC #nasa #phoneUnlocking #rightToBeForgotten #socialMediaPosts #Starliner #verizon -
Weekly output: social-media cleanup, Verizon’s phone-unlock waiting period, NASA’s Starliner report
This will be a travel-abbreviated workweek: Friday afternoon, I head to Dulles to start my journey to Spain for MWC Barcelona, still one of my favorite reasons to get on a plane for business. I’ll be there until March 5, so the next few days would be an excellent time to hit me up with any questions you have about the future of the wireless industry.
Meanwhile, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me this week about my continued struggles with my home WiFi, in which trying to pick out a good mesh-network option has required wrestling with unexpected national-security concerns.
2/17/2026: Social-media cleanses, Al Jazeera
The Arabic-language news channel had me in studio to offer some perspective about people implicated in the Epstein files trying to cleanse their social-media history. I said that if you’re sufficiently prominent, the Internet doesn’t forget things.
2/18/2026: Paid Off Your Phone Early? Verizon to Ease 35-Day Hold to Unlock It, PCMag
Four days after Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin reported that Verizon had begun requiring a 35-day waiting period to complete unlocking a phone paid off early (unless you made that payment in one of Verizon’s own stores with cash or a credit card’s chip or tap-to-pay options), I asked Verizon for comment. Hours later, I got a statement that the company was working to allow online payments to qualify for an immediate unlock–and then Verizon didn’t give Brodkin the same statement.
2/20/2026: Unpacking Starliner Failures, NASA Chief Delivers Scathing Assessment, PCMag
While I was at a space-industry conference in Tysons Thursday, NASA announced the findings of an investigation into everything that went wrong with Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule after its first and still only launch with astronauts aboard. So instead of writing up one of the panels at this event, I started reading the agency’s 311-page report, hit up Boeing PR for a comment and got in a call with a longtime observer and critic of NASA. Then I spent more of Friday than I’d planned on writing this post.
#ArsTechnica #Barcelona #Boeing #EpsteinFiles #JaredIsaacman #JonBrodkin #MWC #nasa #phoneUnlocking #rightToBeForgotten #socialMediaPosts #Starliner #verizon -
Weekly output: social-media cleanup, Verizon’s phone-unlock waiting period, NASA’s Starliner report
This will be a travel-abbreviated workweek: Friday afternoon, I head to Dulles to start my journey to Spain for MWC Barcelona, still one of my favorite reasons to get on a plane for business. I’ll be there until March 5, so the next few days would be an excellent time to hit me up with any questions you have about the future of the wireless industry.
Meanwhile, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me this week about my continued struggles with my home WiFi, in which trying to pick out a good mesh-network option has required wrestling with unexpected national-security concerns.
2/17/2026: Social-media cleanses, Al Jazeera
The Arabic-language news channel had me in studio to offer some perspective about people implicated in the Epstein files trying to cleanse their social-media history. I said that if you’re sufficiently prominent, the Internet doesn’t forget things.
2/18/2026: Paid Off Your Phone Early? Verizon to Ease 35-Day Hold to Unlock It, PCMag
Four days after Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin reported that Verizon had begun requiring a 35-day waiting period to complete unlocking a phone paid off early (unless you made that payment in one of Verizon’s own stores with cash or a credit card’s chip or tap-to-pay options), I asked Verizon for comment. Hours later, I got a statement that the company was working to allow online payments to qualify for an immediate unlock–and then Verizon didn’t give Brodkin the same statement.
2/20/2026: Unpacking Starliner Failures, NASA Chief Delivers Scathing Assessment, PCMag
While I was at a space-industry conference in Tysons Thursday, NASA announced the findings of an investigation into everything that went wrong with Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule after its first and still only launch with astronauts aboard. So instead of writing up one of the panels at this event, I started reading the agency’s 311-page report, hit up Boeing PR for a comment and got in a call with a longtime observer and critic of NASA. Then I spent more of Friday than I’d planned on writing this post.
#ArsTechnica #Barcelona #Boeing #EpsteinFiles #JaredIsaacman #JonBrodkin #MWC #nasa #phoneUnlocking #rightToBeForgotten #socialMediaPosts #Starliner #verizon -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116104400336987638
Oof. I use archive.today (archive.is, archive.ph, etc.) to bypass paywalls but their malicious behavior is pretty bad. 😒
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Ars Technica Publishes A Post With Quotes Fabricated By AI
Ars Technica recently published an article that had quotes that were fabricated by AI/LLMs. When called on it by the person who was “quoted” for the sheer fact that he was NEVER contacted for a quote, Ars did a retraction.
There’s much talk about the ethics here and some good commentary here.
On the latest episode of the TWiT podcast Intelligent Machines, Leo Laporte, Emily Forlini, and Jeff Jarvis talked about it more.
For context: Jeff is a journalism professor and author, Leo is a veteran radio guy, and Emily is a senior reporter at PCMag.
So these guys should have an opinion on this.
Jeff was even handed and explained it like you’d expect a professor to be. Emily was more where I’m at, this reporter needs to be fired. This gives journalism a bad name (one that the industry fights all the time to avoid).
I was a professional journalist for 6 years in the early 2000s, if someone made up quotes then they’d be axed without discussion.
Why not now?
There is no excuse! None!
This is as bad as Stephen Glass‘ fiasco at the New Republic and Jayson Blair at the NYTimes. This is just for the AI age.
What do you think? Am I too heated about this? I might be. But this really gets my blood boiling.😁😃🍻
#arsTechnica #ethicsInJournalism #journalism #myTake #retraction -
THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY
for Feb. 17th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue- An #AI bot attacked a human by publishing a hit piece on him (all resulting in an #ArsTechnica retraction)
- #Microsoft let AI steal and write its #GitHub flow training guide
- A terrifying “smart” sleep mask vuln
- #Meta to purposely roll out mass face scanning while privacy advocates are busy fighting #ICE
- #TrendMicro plans a cool threat actor naming convention
- A very spicy #Ring commercial parody
...and much more.
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https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-17-150965892
#ThreatModel #ThreatModelCybersecurity #ThreatModelNewsletters #VioletBlue #infosec #cybersec #CovidIsNotOver
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In covering the story of an AI agent apparently writing a hit piece blog post about someone who declined its GitHub merge request, Ars Technica posted a story that included fabricated quotes created by AI.
It's slop all the way down.
#ArsTechnica #TechPress #TechReporting #TechMedia #AIslop #MJRathbun #AIagents #Journalism #AIcodingAgents #VibeCoding #VibeJournalism
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In covering the story of an AI agent apparently writing a hit piece blog post about someone who declined its GitHub merge request, Ars Technica posted a story that included fabricated quotes created by AI.
It's slop all the way down.
#ArsTechnica #TechPress #TechReporting #TechMedia #AIslop #MJRathbun #AIagents #Journalism #AIcodingAgents #VibeCoding #VibeJournalism
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In covering the story of an AI agent apparently writing a hit piece blog post about someone who declined its GitHub merge request, Ars Technica posted a story that included fabricated quotes created by AI.
It's slop all the way down.
#ArsTechnica #TechPress #TechReporting #TechMedia #AIslop #MJRathbun #AIagents #Journalism #AIcodingAgents #VibeCoding #VibeJournalism
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In covering the story of an AI agent apparently writing a hit piece blog post about someone who declined its GitHub merge request, Ars Technica posted a story that included fabricated quotes created by AI.
It's slop all the way down.
#ArsTechnica #TechPress #TechReporting #TechMedia #AIslop #MJRathbun #AIagents #Journalism #AIcodingAgents #VibeCoding #VibeJournalism
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In covering the story of an AI agent apparently writing a hit piece blog post about someone who declined its GitHub merge request, Ars Technica posted a story that included fabricated quotes created by AI.
It's slop all the way down.
#ArsTechnica #TechPress #TechReporting #TechMedia #AIslop #MJRathbun #AIagents #Journalism #AIcodingAgents #VibeCoding #VibeJournalism
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I gave Ars Technica the benefit of the doubt and put their half-assed, opaque response down to it happening outside of work hours. With Monday being a holiday, I gave them another day to post a proper response.
They didn't.
So I #cancelled my Ars subscription, and wrote them again. If you have an #Ars subscription and care at all about transparency in journalism, or about the ethics of undisclosed use of "AI" / LLMs in *writing* said #journalism, I encourage you to do the same.
My message today:
> [...] The article contained fabricated quotes from Shambaugh and was itself obviously the product
> of an LLM.
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> I said that if you did not publish a proper correction, with full transparency about how your editorial
> standards were violated and what you were going to do to prevent this sort of ethical and journalistic
> lapse from reoccurring, I would cancel my subscription. A proper correction involves leaving the
> original text intact (so that the error can be seen) and adding a prominent notice of what was wrong,
> and what the correct version is.
>
> You have chosen not to do this. Instead, the original article was silently yanked, and you posted a
> mealy-mouthed half-admission of what happened, with no transparency into what part of your
> processes failed, who was responsible, or what is being done to prevent this from happening again.
>
> I have thus cancelled my subscription.#ArsTechnica #AI #LLM #transparency #correction #ethics #ethical #failure
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I gave Ars Technica the benefit of the doubt and put their half-assed, opaque response down to it happening outside of work hours. With Monday being a holiday, I gave them another day to post a proper response.
They didn't.
So I #cancelled my Ars subscription, and wrote them again. If you have an #Ars subscription and care at all about transparency in journalism, or about the ethics of undisclosed use of "AI" / LLMs in *writing* said #journalism, I encourage you to do the same.
My message today:
> [...] The article contained fabricated quotes from Shambaugh and was itself obviously the product
> of an LLM.
>
> I said that if you did not publish a proper correction, with full transparency about how your editorial
> standards were violated and what you were going to do to prevent this sort of ethical and journalistic
> lapse from reoccurring, I would cancel my subscription. A proper correction involves leaving the
> original text intact (so that the error can be seen) and adding a prominent notice of what was wrong,
> and what the correct version is.
>
> You have chosen not to do this. Instead, the original article was silently yanked, and you posted a
> mealy-mouthed half-admission of what happened, with no transparency into what part of your
> processes failed, who was responsible, or what is being done to prevent this from happening again.
>
> I have thus cancelled my subscription.#ArsTechnica #AI #LLM #transparency #correction #ethics #ethical #failure
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Ars Technica: Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations. “That this happened at Ars is especially distressing. We have covered the risks of overreliance on AI tools for years, and our written policy reflects those concerns. In this case, fabricated quotations were published in a manner inconsistent with that policy. We have reviewed recent work and have not […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/16/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations-ars-technica/ -
Ars Technica: Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations. “That this happened at Ars is especially distressing. We have covered the risks of overreliance on AI tools for years, and our written policy reflects those concerns. In this case, fabricated quotations were published in a manner inconsistent with that policy. We have reviewed recent work and have not […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/16/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations-ars-technica/ -
Ars Technica: Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations. “That this happened at Ars is especially distressing. We have covered the risks of overreliance on AI tools for years, and our written policy reflects those concerns. In this case, fabricated quotations were published in a manner inconsistent with that policy. We have reviewed recent work and have not […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/16/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations-ars-technica/ -
Ars Technica: Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations. “That this happened at Ars is especially distressing. We have covered the risks of overreliance on AI tools for years, and our written policy reflects those concerns. In this case, fabricated quotations were published in a manner inconsistent with that policy. We have reviewed recent work and have not […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/16/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations-ars-technica/
