What's going on here?
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@mttaggart What on earth?
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@mttaggart OMFG
@cR0w I confirmed myself. Not one of the quotes is real.
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@mttaggart It's just too on the nose.
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What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.
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@mttaggart and here I was, just recently reflecting that I should probably be reading Ars more based on some other coverage. Come on!!
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@mttaggart It's just too on the nose.
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What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.
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@mttaggart It's like they all *want* to be made fun of.
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@mttaggart jfc. As an Ars subscriber, I am furious
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@mttaggart jfc. As an Ars subscriber, I am furious
@jalefkowit @mttaggart I'm really saddened that Benj's work seems to have fallen off. I trusted his writing, once.
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What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.
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@mttaggart Why is it that I *immediately* figured that the byline would be Benj Edwards?
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What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.
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@mttaggart lol @ the one downvote
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@jalefkowit @mttaggart I'm really saddened that Benj's work seems to have fallen off. I trusted his writing, once.
@SnoopJ @jalefkowit @mttaggart I am tempted to go on a tagging spree but out of respect for your mentions I will refrain. but what the hell, someone needs to be held to account for this
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@SnoopJ @jalefkowit @mttaggart I am tempted to go on a tagging spree but out of respect for your mentions I will refrain. but what the hell, someone needs to be held to account for this
@SnoopJ @jalefkowit @mttaggart in this day and age I do not want to go around saying reporters should be fired, I get that it’s hard out there, but this needs to be a MAJOR scandal for ars and for Benj and Kyle personally
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@SnoopJ @jalefkowit @mttaggart in this day and age I do not want to go around saying reporters should be fired, I get that it’s hard out there, but this needs to be a MAJOR scandal for ars and for Benj and Kyle personally
@glyph @jalefkowit @mttaggart at the very least, it is egregious malpractice.
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@glyph @jalefkowit @mttaggart at the very least, it is egregious malpractice.
@SnoopJ @glyph @jalefkowit I can not imagine an explanation of how this occurred that isn't damning.
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@SnoopJ @glyph @jalefkowit I can not imagine an explanation of how this occurred that isn't damning.
@mttaggart @glyph @jalefkowit laying my personal wager on "someone used the nonsense machine" but agreed, I cannot think of any explanation for this that would be remotely acceptable.
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@mttaggart @glyph @jalefkowit laying my personal wager on "someone used the nonsense machine" but agreed, I cannot think of any explanation for this that would be remotely acceptable.
@mttaggart @glyph @jalefkowit correction: I *can* think of one, and it's "they accidentally quoted from the hit-piece blog articles instead"
But they didn't do that, those don't contain the quotes either.
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@glyph @jalefkowit @mttaggart at the very least, it is egregious malpractice.
@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @glyph@mastodon.social @jalefkowit@vmst.io @mttaggart@infosec.exchange I am disappointed, although not surprised, that my read on Benj's work at Ars turned out to the accurate one in recent years. Bleh.
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What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.
UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.
@mttaggart@infosec.exchange link is dead
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@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @glyph@mastodon.social @jalefkowit@vmst.io @mttaggart@infosec.exchange I am disappointed, although not surprised, that my read on Benj's work at Ars turned out to the accurate one in recent years. Bleh.
@aud very rude of him to fall off so strongly immediately after I defended his work to you
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What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.
UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.
Seeing the absolute shit shoveling going on that counts for producing content at Ars over the past well...10-15 years at this point...
I'm not sure anyone should be following them let alone paying them subscription money.
That they are now using AI to write their articles is the least surprising thing ever. What a catastrophic fall from grace.
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