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0 pointsepistasis1mo ago0 comments

Yikes I subscribed to them last year on the strength of their reporting in a time where it's hard to find good information.

Printing hallucinated quotes is a huge shock to their credibility, AI or not. Their credibility was already building up after one of their long time contributors, a complete troll of a person that was a poison on their forums, went to prison for either pedophilia or soliciting sex from a minor.

Some serious poor character judgement is going on over there. With all their fantastic reporters I hope the editors explain this carefully.

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singpolyma31mo ago

TBF even journalists who interview people for real and take notes routinely quite them saying things they didn't say. The LLMs make it worse, but it's hardly surprising behaviour from them

pmontra1mo ago

I knew first hand about a couple of news in my life. Both were reported quite incorrectly. That was well before LLMs. I assume that every news is quite inaccurate, so I read/hear them to get the general gist of what happened, then I research the details if I care about them.

epistasisOP1mo ago

It's surprising behavior to come from Ars Technica. But also when journalists misquote it's through a different phrasing of something that Pepe have actually said, sometimes with different emphasis or eve meaning. But of the people I've known who have been misquoted it's always traceable to something they actually did say.

justinclift1mo ago

> Their credibility was already building up ...

Don't you mean diminishing or disappearing instead of building up?

Building up sounds like the exact opposite of what I think you're meaning. ;)

zem1mo ago

I think they meant it had taken a huge hit and was in the process of building up again

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