What's going on here?
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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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@mttaggart I got the comments though.
@hackillu @mttaggart You got the comments online anywhere? I am dying to see them.
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@jalefkowit @mttaggart Big same. Decades now.
They need to respond fast or I'm out.
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@jalefkowit @mttaggart Big same. Decades now.
They need to respond fast or I'm out.
@j_s_j @mttaggart Aurich said in the comments that they are investigating, but probably won't have a response until Monday.
It had better be a good one
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@hackillu @mttaggart You got the comments online anywhere? I am dying to see them.
@theotherbrook @mttaggart I just have a text file.
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@theotherbrook @mttaggart I just have a text file.
@theotherbrook @mttaggart the site wouldn't download, so i did copy paste
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@theotherbrook @mttaggart the site wouldn't download, so i did copy paste
@hackillu @mttaggart There's now a thread on the open forum.
EDIT: Oh, but it's been locked. I've bumped heads with Aurich about some stuff but I do trust him to be pretty open when they are ready to talk about it.
Journalistic standards?
Hi folks, Since Ars is apparently posting partially or fully AI generated articles now, I have to ask - is this going to be a continued policy going...
Ars OpenForum (arstechnica.com)
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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 so, ars technica is now merely slop as well?
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Putting this here so all can see it. Ars forum thread where the pull and investigation are mentioned: https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards.1511650/
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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 @mttaggart it still exists in their forum.
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Putting this here so all can see it. Ars forum thread where the pull and investigation are mentioned: https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards.1511650/
Aaand the full comments thread from the original story: https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name.1511649/
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@theorangetheme I think the lock might be SOP for a pulled story. And mods tend not to like rampant speculation.
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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.
AI isn't intended to be accurate, useful, or productive.
It's just automated information pollution like Steve Bannon's version of Russian "flood the zone with sh*t" disinformation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-russia-emails-00648919https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article312917423.html
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(www.bylinesupplement.com)
Look at the investors behind AI.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE
They don't have to fly planes into buildings anymore to destroy democracy & fry the planet.
Future of military AI in Saudi Arabia: AI-enhanced, or AI-native? - Breaking Defense
A Saudi official raised the key question during a panel at the World Defense Show outside Riyadh.
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AI isn't intended to be accurate, useful, or productive.
It's just automated information pollution like Steve Bannon's version of Russian "flood the zone with sh*t" disinformation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-russia-emails-00648919https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article312917423.html
In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage
(www.bylinesupplement.com)
Look at the investors behind AI.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE
They don't have to fly planes into buildings anymore to destroy democracy & fry the planet.
Future of military AI in Saudi Arabia: AI-enhanced, or AI-native? - Breaking Defense
A Saudi official raised the key question during a panel at the World Defense Show outside Riyadh.
Breaking Defense (breakingdefense.com)
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Russia & Putin
Putin deluded himself that AI-enabled warfare will solve his manpower problems & population bottlenecks. 1.3 million dead soldiers so far in Ukraine.
https://www.neimagazine.com/news/putin-links-nuclear-buildout-to-russias-ai-ambitions/
How technophobe Putin led Russia to surrender in the AI arms race
The Kremlin made Yuri Gagarin the first man in space but now lags Luxembourg in AI — which the president seems to regard as a challenge to his authority
(www.thetimes.com)
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Russia & Putin
Putin deluded himself that AI-enabled warfare will solve his manpower problems & population bottlenecks. 1.3 million dead soldiers so far in Ukraine.
https://www.neimagazine.com/news/putin-links-nuclear-buildout-to-russias-ai-ambitions/
How technophobe Putin led Russia to surrender in the AI arms race
The Kremlin made Yuri Gagarin the first man in space but now lags Luxembourg in AI — which the president seems to regard as a challenge to his authority
(www.thetimes.com)
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Koch Network
Building a White Supremacist Constitution one brick at a time over 60 years.The hate is now automated, corrupt, & well funded.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html
The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.
DeSmog (www.desmog.com)
Like His Dad, Charles Koch Was a Bircher (New Documents)
Many have noted that the Koch Brothers' dad was a Bircher, but new documents show Charles was, too.
Progressive.org (progressive.org)
With AI, the wealthy skip paying for hate-for-hire campaigns like Facebook, Tenet Media, or the Russian Internet Research Agency
Top Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg just apologized for racist ad targeting
She was “disgusted and disappointed.”
Mother Jones (www.motherjones.com)
The Kochs’ Anti-Civil Rights Roots: New Docs Expose Charles Koch’s Ties to John Birch Society
The Progressive magazine and Center for Media and Democracy have released new documents that show billionaire oil industrialist Charles Koch was an active member of the controversial right-wing John Birch Society during its campaigns against the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Charles Koch was following in the footsteps of his father, Fred Koch, a leader of the John Birch Society from its founding. We speak with The Progressive’s Lisa Graves about her new article, “The Koch Cartel: Their
Democracy Now! (www.democracynow.org)
Who Sponsored the Hate?
Jane Mayer on the Koch brothers’ surprising disapproval of Donald Trump, and their own history of toxic rhetoric.
The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com)
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(thehill.com)
Did the John Birch Society Win in the End?
Modern conservatism was built by purging the right’s reckless conspiracy theorists—but now they’ve taken over.
(www.thebulwark.com)
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