An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened

The Hacker News discussion highlights the irony that Ars Technica's own coverage of the AI hit-piece incident contained LLM-hallucinated quotes falsely attributed to the article's author, prompting the outlet to pull the article. Key threads include debate about whether developers who advocate "don't look at the code" hold a double standard when criticising journalists for not fact-checking AI output, and broader alarm about autonomous agents deployed via platforms where identifying the responsible operator is effectively impossible.

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