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@glyph Yeah I'm also finding putting the crash-out early impacts my productivity. I'm experimenting with waiting until the end of the day to squeeze that in.

@hacks4pancakes HellLM.

@theorangetheme @amapanda 100% agreed. I wrote this 3 years ago and I am not happy about how prescient it has proven.

The ability to generate massive amounts of language will be exploited for profit and weaponized to disseminate misinformation against a public that will naively consume this language because it is convenient. Over time, what is true will become indistinguishable from what is hallucinated.

https://taggart-tech.com/ai-llms/

@theorangetheme @amapanda

I sincerely apologize to Scott Shambaugh for misrepresenting his words. I take full responsibility. The irony of an AI reporter being tripped up by AI hallucination is not lost on me. I take accuracy in my work very seriously and this is a painful failure on my part.

Of course you may have other reasons not to trust this author. I am not the most familiar with his work. Nevertheless, this apology strikes me as sincere, and I have greater confidence that this author (and Ars) won't make the same mistake again, having been so pubicly caught out this time.

My conception of trust allows for mistakes, but I understand not everyone's does.

@amapanda They have retracted the article and issued an apology. The author has accepted responsibility, explained what happened, and apologized. I see no reason to demand more from them at this time. Should they demonstrate the same behavior again, the story changes.

@vladimir_lu @tante Betrayal and a feeling like the world is asking me to accept something I know in my bones to be wrong.

@tante It's just ruined all the joy of this field.

@Linza SSDs were already short for roughly the same reasons DRAM was.

To clarify: I am saying this is what they want. Not that it is inevitable. But it's difficult to ignore the clear pattern of strategic decisions by these companies since the dawn of "services" until this benighted age.

@agowa338 The ones used for training workloads are not usable after 1-2 years max. Anything fronting hot storage will be in a similar situation. Sure, some may be resold, but if they already have a shorter lifespan, the supply issue remains.

@agowa338 Do you know what happens to these disks after they're used the way they get used in a data center?

@koakuma @the_turtle Even if they wanted to resell, the cost of logistics for such an operation would outstrip profits.

Into the dump they'll go. We haven't even begun imagining the e-waste of this absurd misadventure.

@lemgandi Then what's the point you're trying to make?

@lemgandi This is actually malice! It's rapacious greed, the purest evil!

@freya @tschenkel I gently submit you were already lucky to have all that!

@tinmouth Finally my M-Disc writer makes sense

You see what's happening right?

They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.

At astronomical rents.

https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

Not quite the final chapter! Benj Edwards has taken responsiblity in this Bluesky post:

https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p

For those who won't head over there, a summary:

First, this happened while sick with COVID. Second, Edwards claims this was a new experiment using Claude Code to extract source material. Claude refused to process the blog post (because Shambaugh mentions harassment). Edwards then took the blog post text and pasted it into ChatGPT, which evidently is the source of the fictitious quotes. Edwards takes full responsibility and apologizes, recognizing the irony of an AI reporter falling prey to this kind of mistake.

@Retreival9096 There's an apology in the linked post.

The final chapter? The statement from Ars:

On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them. That is a serious failure of our standards. Direct quotations must always reflect what a source actually said.

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations