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

    he had COVID while doing all this

    I’ve had COVID before, it sucks but it doesn’t make you stupid.

    he just got mixed up when experimenting

    I don’t believe him.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 months 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
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            2 months 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.