“We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.”
how? where did the failure happen, and what specific steps are they taking to stop that? what are the consequences for the human being(s) responsible for the AI slop?
when you wreck trust, then it’s your problem to re-earn that trust. your one-sentence subtitle promising “i’ll never do it again” doesn’t fix this and increase trust, it makes the shit even worse
Someone in the hackernews comments links a bluesky post by the author of the article that adds more context: https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p. He claims the use of those quotes was an inadvertent mixup of his notes due to being sick and in a rush, and that he didn’t intend to include any AI output in the final piece.
“We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.”
how? where did the failure happen, and what specific steps are they taking to stop that? what are the consequences for the human being(s) responsible for the AI slop?
when you wreck trust, then it’s your problem to re-earn that trust. your one-sentence subtitle promising “i’ll never do it again” doesn’t fix this and increase trust, it makes the shit even worse
Someone in the hackernews comments links a bluesky post by the author of the article that adds more context: https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p. He claims the use of those quotes was an inadvertent mixup of his notes due to being sick and in a rush, and that he didn’t intend to include any AI output in the final piece.