Jim Salter on Nostr: Oh, this is BAD. Slop on the front page...?! Aurich says an investigation has been ...
Oh, this is BAD. Slop on the front page...?!
Aurich says an investigation has been opened, and we'll hear the results next week.
(Aurich was also careful not to say slop was posted. Just that there made have been a policy violation. But I don't see any other way to explain the second half of the piece being hallucinatory quotes that were never uttered on the GitHub thread in question.)
I look forward to the results of this investigation.
What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name
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