Last week Scott Shambaugh learned an AI agent published a “hit piece” about him after he’d rejected the AI agent’s pull request. (And that incident was covered by Ars Technica‘s senior AI reporter.)
But then Shambaugh realized their article attributed quotes to him he hadn’t said — that were presumably AI-generated.
Sunday Ars Technica‘s founder/editor-in-chief apologized, admitting their article had indeed contained “fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool” that…

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