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 |Description=Ars Tecnica published a poorly AI written article, on a guy being bullied by an AI Agent. Later they pulled the article and clarified the situation.
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+}}Ars Technica published an article<ref>{{Cite web |title=Article posted on Ars Technica |url=https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/}}</ref> on a programmer who was being "bullied" by an AI autonomous agent. The article was written using AI, with non-existant quotations. The article was later removed and Ars Technica published an editor's note<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ars Technica retraction |url=https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations}}</ref> explaing what happened.
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 ==Background==
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+Scott Shambaugh (contributor of the matplotlib library on github) created a good first issue/first contribution [check needed here of which one was it, seems to be the same for this repo], and got an [https://openclaw.ai OpenClaw] agent pull request<ref>{{Cite web |title=Github pull request |url=https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132}}</ref> as fix for the issue. The pull request got closed, the AI Agent got mad, so the AI Agent generated a post on its blog<ref>{{Cite web |title=AI Agents's post |url=https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/83b7d600b00665af578074defb2040e7ba4f188b |url-status=dead}}</ref>, and also Scott wrote a blog post. <ref>{{Cite web |first=The Shamblog |title=An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me |url=https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me}}</ref>
-==[Incident]==
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-===[Company]'s response===
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-==Lawsuit==
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-==Consumer response==
+==Incident==
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+Ars Technica (authors listed are "Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland") wrote an article on the situation, but the hit piece's contained AI allucinated quotations.
+== Ars Technica's response ==
+The Ars Technica's staff wrote an Editor’s Note explaining briefly explaining what happened. The article author also wrote an apology on BlueSky<ref>{{Cite web |title=Apology |url=https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p}}</ref>
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