What's going on here?
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@mttaggart @glyph @jalefkowit correction: I *can* think of one, and it's "they accidentally quoted from the hit-piece blog articles instead"
But they didn't do that, those don't contain the quotes either.
@SnoopJ @mttaggart @glyph Looks like the article has been completely deleted.
Aurich said in the comments before it vanished that they were aware of the issue and looking into it. I assume the findings were pretty dire.
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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.
UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.
@mttaggart archive dot org link since they took it down: https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/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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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@mttaggart Crap, they DID?! I still have it open! Anything you want before it goes into the void?
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@mttaggart Crap, they DID?! I still have it open! Anything you want before it goes into the void?
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@mttaggart a "we have hallucinated too and have pulled the article that was here before" would have been better. Good thing you saved it.
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
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@mttaggart And thus we close it.
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@mttaggart And thus we close it.
@mttaggart I got the comments though.
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@mttaggart I got the comments though.
@hackillu Nice!
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@mttaggart of course they did, but now they'll need to explain how they managed to let that get published
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@mttaggart I suppose one thing you can say about old newspapers - no one can pretend an article was never printed
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@mttaggart So it was a double slop article? -_-
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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.
UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.
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@drsbaitso Was just about to post this, thank you.
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@drsbaitso Was just about to post this, thank you.
@mttaggart Also, this is not a good situation. Ars has some serious explaining to do.
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@mttaggart I happened to be reading in the comment section before the article got pulled.
Here is Aurich's last post saying the article was pulled and they're going to be investigating, but there probably won't be any answers until Monday and they'll update readers then.
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@mttaggart So it was a double slop article? -_-
@catsalad Slop on slop on slop. Literally.
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@mttaggart Oh, I wish you'd gotten the comments too. I can only imagine what some familiar handles would have had to say in them.
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@mttaggart Oh, I wish you'd gotten the comments too. I can only imagine what some familiar handles would have had to say in them.
@theotherbrook Someone else in these replies did!
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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.
UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.
@mttaggart wow they pulled the article down
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