[kergonath]

Ars never commented about firing staff before, and it happened on several occasions. You get the occasional article when someone joins, never when someone leaves. They should have published another article after all this, but I would not expect them to comment about staff.

[anakaine]

And I think thats a good thing. People screw up, and journalists are people. This person's punishment for their screw up was losing their job. They do not need to be dragged into a hit piece.

Ars can, and probably should if they have not already, publish a piece about hallucinations and use of AI in journalism, and own up to their own lack of appropriate controls and reflections. They do not need to drag the authors name into the write up. It can be self critical of themselves as a journalistic outlet.

[g947o]

Nobody needs to publish a hit piece.

Ars could have just said "After investigation, we reviewed our editorial process. The author of the article is no longer with the company." factually and objectively.

I can't see how this could possibly be a negative or harmful thing.