@catsalad Slop on slop on slop. Literally.

@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!

@mttaggart wow they pulled the article down

@hackillu @mttaggart You got the comments online anywhere? I am dying to see them.

@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

@theotherbrook @mttaggart I just have a text file.

@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)

@mttaggart so, ars technica is now merely slop as well?

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/

@theotherbrook @mttaggart it still exists in their forum.

Log in

Ars OpenForum (arstechnica.com)

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/

@theorangetheme I think the lock might be SOP for a pulled story. And mods tend not to like rampant speculation.

@mttaggart

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-00648919

https://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)

nytimes.com

(www.nytimes.com)

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

(www.bloomberg.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/

wsj.com

(www.wsj.com)

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)

@SnoopJ @aud it isn’t *quite* a milkshake duck in degree, but maybe in spirit

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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

forbes.com

(www.forbes.com)

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)

@mttaggart @catsalad wait, was there *any* truth in there whatsoever? Like, it sounds like it was 100% made up?

Just like the Daily Mail is known for?