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HN values discussion without attacking others. If you disagree with something someone says, then addressing their claims directly is the best option.
According to the Archive link, the authors are Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland [1].
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechni...
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Wirecutter was a good premise, but now it and everyone copying it are untrustworthy. It feels like the human version of AI hallucination: saying what they think is convincing without regard for if it's sincere. And because it mimics trusted speech, it can slip right by your defense mechanisms.
Any good idea will be copied by those with lesser motives.
"Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations" https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retractio...
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Agreed. And when I look at the issues being discussed, I do not see something so clear as rainy or sunny. I see one side of contentious issues - issues with good arguements for both sides.
Your window might be fogged up.
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Wirecutter is part of NYTimes and depends on crosswords for income. I haven't always agreed with them and sometimes the articles are clearly wrong because they're several years old, but they're usually good. (I think I last seriously disagreed with them about a waffle maker.)
Wirecutter has stated in the past, maybe it was on their podcast, that they get a lot of their income from affiliate links. They have done some fairly suspicious things like their “gift guide”s for Christmas which are little more than long lists of products with affiliate links. Same for their “sales guide” for Black Friday, and there have been other cases. That doesn’t mean their reviews are bad, I just approach the…
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>These tools are not perfect, but they're right more often than they're wrong. Based on what in particular? The only time I have used them is to have a laugh.
Based on experience, including a good number of experiments I've done with known-LLM output and contemporary, known-human text. Try them for real and be surprised. Some of the good, state-of-the-art tools include originality.ai and Pangram. A lot of people on HN have preconceived notions here based on stories they read about someone being unfairly accused of plagiarism or people deliberately triggering failure modes…
I think your tools need a lot more evidence to be considered reliable.
1: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retractio...
Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland are the names of the authors in the byline of the now-removed Ars piece with the entirely fabricated quotes that didn’t bother to spend thirty seconds fact checking them before publishing. Their byline is on the archive.org link, but this post declines to name them. It shouldn’t. There ought to be social consequences for using machines to mindlessly and recklessly libel people. These peop…
I refuse to join your lynch mob, sneak. Let’s wait for the investigation.
> That this happened at Ars is especially distressing. We have covered the risks of overreliance on AI tools for years, and our written policy reflects those concerns. In this case, fabricated quotations were published in a manner inconsistent with that policy. We have reviewed recent work and have not identified additional issues. At this time, this appears to be an isolated incident.
> Ars Technica does not permit the publication of AI-generated material unless it is clearly labeled and presented for demonstration purposes. That rule is not optional, and it was not followed here.
Wow sickening
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I read ars technica during undergrad over 20 years ago now. It complemented my learning in cpu architecture quite well. While in class we learned old stuff, they covered the modern Intel things. And also, who could forget the fantastically detailed and expert macOS reviews. I’ve never seen any reviews of any kind like that since. I dropped ars from my rss sometime around covid when they basically dropped their journa…
What blogs do you subscribe to for tech stuff in your RSS feed? I still have Ars but I have to weed through a lot of stuff like the political articles. Really like just pure tech like how it used to be with the old Anandtech.