@theorangetheme r/myboyfriendisai is horrifying for this reason.

• Alienation from the product of labor
• Alienation from the satisfaction of labor
• Alienation from labor as conscious creation (WE ARE HERE)
• Alienation from others

Marx could not have written a better exemplar of alienation than what the AI industry is perpetrating.

It's like this: between all examples of, say, a contract in the training corpora, what would you imagine the variance is between them? Consider variance as diction, syntax, and even conceptual structure.

Now consider the variance between all examples of, like, a login process.

It's so, so much harder to distill not-code text to produce useful output in similar shapes.

But of course, the insecure nature of the example code also guarantees a tendency to insecurity in model output as well.

Everyone claiming that generative models' (dubious) capability with software is transferable to other realms is making an unsubstantiated claim. But then again, it's just another permutation of engineer's disease.

Coding is the easiest thing for a language model to do.

@vladimir_lu @tante Betrayal and a feeling like the world is asking me to accept something I know in my bones to be wrong.

@tante It's just ruined all the joy of this field.

@tinmouth Finally my M-Disc writer makes sense

You see what's happening right?

They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.

At astronomical rents.

https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

Not quite the final chapter! Benj Edwards has taken responsiblity in this Bluesky post:

https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p

For those who won't head over there, a summary:

First, this happened while sick with COVID. Second, Edwards claims this was a new experiment using Claude Code to extract source material. Claude refused to process the blog post (because Shambaugh mentions harassment). Edwards then took the blog post text and pasted it into ChatGPT, which evidently is the source of the fictitious quotes. Edwards takes full responsibility and apologizes, recognizing the irony of an AI reporter falling prey to this kind of mistake.

@Retreival9096 There's an apology in the linked post.

The final chapter? The statement from Ars:

On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them. That is a serious failure of our standards. Direct quotations must always reflect what a source actually said.

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations

@umbu https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116070822568559995

These were pulled too, but thank you again Wayback:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260213211721/https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name.1511649/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645

Thinking about this, and I would love some questions answered by journalists who see this:

1. Is it common these days for stories to publish without editorial review?
2. During editorial review, would made-up quotes from a cited source be caught?
3. Do you see any difference between using LLMs to create a story (and hallucinate quotes) and just making them up yourself?
4. If you had been caught doing this, what would happen next?

@tehfishman @catsalad Where do you think you are, Moltbook?

@tante @stefan_hessbrueggen In the thread!

@kura Which I also did.

@kura Keep reading the thread

@staringatclouds The event is real. The quotes in the story were hallucinated.

@inpc Keep reading the thread friendo