2026-02-15 22:38 UTC
@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au @404mediaco@mastodon.social @benjedwards@mastodon.social @arstechnica@mastodon.social another possibility, but this would surprise me, is that one of the two asked an intern or someone to pull quotes from the blog for them. That would be silly -- a blog is already not a live source so it's not adding novelty or beefiness imo. This is why it reads more to me like an author was asked to report with quotes and chose to shortcut. That's also silly, because you don't need to read far into a single website to get what you need. Alas.
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@aetataureate@mastodon.social 2026-02-15 22:42
@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au @404mediaco@mastodon.social @benjedwards@mastodon.social @arstechnica@mastodon.social if you have any expertise at all on the material you're covering as an AI beat writer, you would never ask any of them to do this work for you. It's a notable failure point of LLMs in general, we all know of AI hallucinations, even people who advocate some or certain AI usage know it is a weakness. (I do not use and have never used an LLM, for my work or anything else.)