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.
Hm… yeah… i don’t know…
Also: https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p
I think this says it all: https://bsky.app/profile/mightyapollo.bsky.social/post/3meyhu3kkgs2n
Or… he was ill and made a stupid mistake as he should have been resting?
Either it was a once-off or Ars will fuck up again. Guess we’ll see.
Is that how you would feel if he had just made up the quotes himself? Being sick is not an excuse to break journalistic integrity or company policy on AI. Being sick will afford you time off, or allowances for some mistakes (like typos or misattributions or editing errors), but in my opinion does not allow for AI use. If you cannot source quotes from a relatively short blog post but can think to ask Claude and ChatGPT I think that reflects very poorly on you in general. Why would you ask AI to do a task you should already know it’s bad at and not bother to check it? He was too sick to ctrl+F AI output but not too sick to ask one AI why the other AI wasn’t doing what it was asked? That’s a whole secondary task he would never have had to do if he just bothered to get the quotes himself.
Using AI is not a mistake. That’s like saying an affair is a mistake. It’s something he can regret sure, but he didn’t accidentally open Claude and ChatGPT. He knowingly did something he should not have done. Being sick does not excuse that. I’m not saying it’s unforgivable, but there is a huge difference between what he did and other mistakes that other journalists have made.