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207 Ars Technica's AI Reporter Apologizes For Mistakenly Publishing Fake AI-Generated Quotes

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 02/15/2026 20:41 EDT

Ars Technica's AI Reporter Apologizes For Mistakenly Publishing Fake AI-Generated Quotes

Sunday Ars Technica apologized for making Scott Shambaugh's week a little weirder. Last week Shambaugh learned an AI agent published a "hit piece" about him after he'd rejected the AI agent's pull request. (And that incident was covered by Ars Technica.)

But then Shambaugh realized their article attributed quotes to him he hadn't said — that were presumably AI-generated.


Sunday Ars Technica's founder/editor-in-chief admitted their article had indeed contained "fabricated quotations generated by an AI t

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