2026-02-15 22:35 UTC
@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au @404mediaco@mastodon.social @benjedwards@mastodon.social @arstechnica@mastodon.social I'm a journalist and I cover AI sometimes as part of my beat. I would be surprised if Kyle Orland asked AI to scrape quotes for him. Benj Edwards is a freelancer producing multiple stories many days, most of which are press release or social media type rewrites: not unethical, but not the same as reporting. I do not discount Ars overall (you may, to each their own!), but this level of judgment failure would be catastrophic for an AI beat writer.
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@aetataureate@mastodon.social 2026-02-15 22:38
@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.