[Revanche1367]

So the original blogger got slandered by an LLM agent, then got slandered again by a human journalist who used an LLM agent to write the article about him getting slandered by an LLM agent? How ironic.

But, does that mean he got slandered twice by an LLM agent or once by an agent and once by a human? Or was he technically slandered 3 times? Twice by agents and a third time by the journalist? New questions for the new agentic society.

[sparky_z]

He was only slandered once, by the LLM Agent. The Ars Technica article had presented paraphrases that it falsely attributed as direct quotes, and was therefore factually incorrect reporting. But it was not defamatory by any reasonable standard. Slander isn't just a synonym of "lie".

[zarflax]

No, the journalist came in and slandered the LLM Twice and Jim Fell.

[gdulli]

"Who are you, and how did you lose your job?"

"I'm an AI reporter. And, I'm an AI reporter."

[amstan]

4 times, you forgot the owner of the bot that did the PR.

[Revanche1367]

Indeed, you’re right.

[lostmsu]

Wait, in what way the original blogger got slandered by an LLM agent?

[sparky_z]

It literally wrote a blog post [supposedly on its own initiative] trying to gin up outrage at open source maintainer after he denied the LLM's pull request.

Here's the original write-up of the incident:

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...

[lostmsu]

And which part of that blog post is slander?