After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

Resident Pulser@infosec.pub · 29 days ago

After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

dparticiple@sh.itjust.works · 29 days ago

Watched the Ars conversation on this one. Aurich pulled the article after a firestorm in the comments, in which the quotes attributed to the AI agent operator appeared to be non-existent (the human subject of the article weighed in to corroborate this). Ars Technica has promised to investigate and update readers after the weekend.

Resident Pulser@infosec.pub · 28 days ago

There is some context to this: https://infosec.pub/post/42085217

dparticiple@sh.itjust.works · 27 days ago

Yup, and Ars has followed up with an initial explanation at https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/ . Hopefully they’ll go into greater detail about what happened.

After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

Retraction: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name