That one article undermined my ability to reasonably trust Ars Technica; however, I’m glad they are taking steps to remedy that breech of trust.
That same author did a January piece - “10 things I learned from …” Then all of the things he adored about vibbing with AI for a month. It was clickbaity enough that it made it onto the news.google.com feed.
Ars has had lots of recent click bait phrasing in their articles, far more than a decade ago.
I’ve put the site on cool-down from my regular rotation.
I missed that one, I don’t read Ars Technica enough to know this. Thank you for bringing it to my attention, as such an article would’ve belonged better on a techbro site, glazing LLMs that have yet to manifest the power that techbros claim it has.
They don’t review articles before publishing them? What if Scott Shambaugh didn’t comment? I can’t trust Ars anymore
The reporter fucked up, and it was published so Ars Technica fucked up too, but fuck-ups happen. The far bigger fuck-up is that Ars Technica hasn’t covered this story with a fraction of the tenacity they’d show if the fuck-ups had happened at, say, TechCrunch or Gizmodo.
Talking publicly about how and why you fired someone that used to work at your company is generally a no-no, for legal reasons if no other.
So… Journalists just push stories without an editor reviewing them? I always assumed publications like Ars had someone in the Gandalf role (you shall not pass!) making sure articles were “correct” in many ways. … Guess not?
This story just keeps on giving!
well that’s nice i guess
