It sure looks like Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland at Ars Technica (npub15wh…e9hw) used a badly behaved chatbot to write their article about somebody else's badly behaved chatbot. At the very least, they signed off on bunch of fabricated quotes.
Ars Technica used to be so good.
(Edit: Article got pulled, but the internet remembers: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065428288139586 )
https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645
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