On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them.That is a serious failure of our standards. Direct quotations must always reflect what a source actually said.
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Ars Technica does not permit the publication of AI-generated material unless it is clearly labeled and presented for demonstration purposes. That rule is not optional, and it was not followed here.
The authors were Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland, for future reference. They didn’t say they fired them, so it’s hard to know what will change.