Wayback Machine archive of the article on Ars: https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechni...
Earliest archive of Scott's blog post that is claimed in the article to be the source of the quotes: https://web.archive.org/web/20260212165418/https://theshambl...
Early Mastodon post about this situation, with a screenshot of Scott's comment: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645
A couple of posts on the Ars forum; the first ends with a reply from a staff member:
https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards...
https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/um-what-happened-to-th...
> We have pulled the story over concerns that it may have gone against our content policies. I locked the comments, and I'm going to lock this one too, we need some time. We are doing an investigation right now to figure out exactly what happened.
In case it changes, the submitted title is currently:
ArsTechnica seemingly using AI to write an article about AI impersonation
After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name
The article has now been pulled by Ars.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechni...