{"id":219422,"date":"2026-03-03T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/ars-technica-fires-reporter-for-ai-fabricated-quotes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:50:13","slug":"ars-technica-fires-reporter-for-ai-fabricated-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/ars-technica-fires-reporter-for-ai-fabricated-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ars Technica fires reporter for AI-fabricated quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/talkingbiznews.com\/media-news\/ars-technica-fires-reporter-for-ai-fabricated-quotes\/\">Ars Technica fires reporter for AI-fabricated quotes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/talkingbiznews.com\/media-news\/ars-technica-fires-reporter-for-ai-fabricated-quotes\/\">https:\/\/talkingbiznews.com\/media-news\/ars-technica-fires-reporter-for-ai-fabricated-quotes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-03 08:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"talkingbiznews.com\">talkingbiznews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cond\u00e9 Nast-owned Ars Technica terminated senior artificial intelligence reporter <strong>Benj Edwards<\/strong> for a story that included AI-fabricated quotes, reports\u00a0<strong>Maggie Harrison Dupre\u00a0<\/strong>of Futurism.<\/p>\n<p>Dupre reports, \u201cEarlier this month,\u00a0Ars\u00a0retracted the story after it was found to include fake quotes attributed to a real person. The article \u2014 a write-up of a viral incident in which an AI agent\u00a0seemingly published a hit piece\u00a0about a human engineer named Scott Shambaugh \u2014 was initially published on February 13. After Shambaugh pointed out that he\u2019d never said the quotes attributed to him,\u00a0Ars\u2018 editor-in-chief <strong>Ken Fisher<\/strong> apologized in an\u00a0editor\u2019s note, in which he confirmed that the piece included \u2018fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them\u2019 and characterized the error as a \u2018serious failure of our standards.\u2019 He added that, upon further review, the error appeared to be an \u2018isolated incident.\u2019 (404 Media\u00a0first reported\u00a0on the retraction.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShortly after Fisher\u2019s editor\u2019s note was published, Edwards, one of the report\u2019s two bylined authors,\u00a0took to Bluesky to take \u2018full responsibility\u2019 for the inclusion of the fabricated quotes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/talkingbiznews.com\/media-news\/ars-technica-fires-reporter-for-ai-fabricated-quotes\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica fires reporter for AI-fabricated quotes https:\/\/talkingbiznews.com\/media-news\/ars-technica-fires-reporter-for-ai-fabricated-quotes\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-03 08:55:00 Source Domain: talkingbiznews.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/talkingbiznews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-02-at-9.31.49-AM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-219422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219424,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219422\/revisions\/219424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}