{"id":192354,"date":"2026-03-03T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/ars-technica-fires-reporter-for-ai-fabricated-quotes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:05:19","slug":"ars-technica-fires-reporter-for-ai-fabricated-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.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<ul>\n<li>Ars Technica, a Cond\u00e9 Nast-owned publication, terminated Senior Artificial Intelligence reporter Benj Edwards for his involvement in a story that included AI-fabricated quotes.<\/li>\n<li>The article in question, published on February 13, was about a viral incident where an AI agent seemingly published a critical piece about a human engineer named Scott Shambaugh.<\/li>\n<li>Ars Technica&#8217;s editor-in-chief, Ken Fisher, retracted the story after Shambaugh pointed out the inaccuracy regarding quotes attributed to him.<\/li>\n<li>In an editor&#8217;s note, Fisher apologized and admitted that the article contained fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool that were wrongly attributed to Shambaugh.<\/li>\n<li>Fisher described the error as a &#8220;serious failure of our standards&#8221; but also noted it seemed to be an isolated incident.<\/li>\n<li>Soon after the editor&#8217;s note, Edwards took to Bluesky to take full responsibility for his role in the fabricated content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/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":192355,"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-192354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192356,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192354\/revisions\/192356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}