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Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours ago

Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

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Attached: 1 image 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.** https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name

Hacker News.

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    https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ars-technica/ gives a factual reporting score and political bias estimation.

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      No way, MBFC utter garbage.

      It is one random guys opinion and pushes pro-Zionist content. It’s extremely biased and unfairly rates sites all the time. To see it still pushed after the .world/c/world fiasco is disheartening.

      • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        [citation needed]

      • Somecall_metim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        [Citation needed]

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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        You could share sources about this? I don’t know about your biases.

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      Unless israel is involved

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      Good recommendation. They have an API and plugins https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/appsextensions/

      I was thinking of something that also alerts me to how many times the publication has been found to have published AI under the name of a human. But Media Bias Fact Check might actually cover that well enough. I’ll install that extension now, thank you!

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