Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
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    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      Because it’s completely ridiculous. What if we was just phoning it in? He’s just going to come out and say it?

        • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          4·
          14 hours ago

          I mean, I find it hard to believe too.

          accidentally used a Chat-GPT paraphrased version of Shambaugh’s blog rather than a direct quote.

          Is quite the umm…. Accident? So the ars writer pulled some junk from ChatGPT, and used it as a direct quote in the article by accident? I suppose maybe depends on how the ars writer takes notes, and maybe should be an opportunity for reflection on how they do that to not have this happen again. Especially since it sounds likely they do ai investigation as part of their main job.

          I mean, the Covid piece is certainly interesting, and sounds like a failure of ars to offer real sick time or a backup writer or something. I’m not sure.

          All around, a big mess. Though, the blog in question was a fascinating read.

          • Totally Human Emdash User@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            5·
            7 hours ago

            I do not see it as being so implausible that he got mixed up due to being sick and thought he was doing one thing while he was actually doing another; as you said, among other things, he should probably reflect on how he takes notes.

            I think that my overall point stands that there is not a good reason not to at least tentatively give him the benefit of the doubt that he screwed up in the way that he said that he screwed up, rather than assuming that he is lying and actually did something significantly worse, especially given that he fully admits to having screwed up and took full responsibility for it.