> Ars Technica picked up the story. Their article included quotes attributed to Shambaugh. The problem: he never said any of them. The quotes don’t exist anywhere on his blog. Shambaugh’s site blocks AI scraping, and he believes the article was AI-assisted.
Ars has now admitted it in an editors note so bad that it too could be parrot squawk.
chrisjj•1h ago
Ars has now admitted it in an editors note so bad that it too could be parrot squawk.
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retractio...
It conceals the name of the article and names of its two authors.