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Adrian Bogdan

Home > Media & Platforms > Journalism “The irony of an AI reporter being tripped up by AI hallucination is not lost on me,” Benj Edwards wrote on Bluesky Ars Technica, the Condé Nast-owned technology outlet, fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after the publication retracted one of his stories over the use of fabricated quotes. The story in question was, ironically, about an AI agent that generated a hit piece on engineer Scott Shambaugh after he rejected its code. Edwards and a Condé Nast