terminatortwo

Thanks for linking this. I hope ars makes it more visible. I’ll have to take Benj’s word.

That’s the thing with trust, hard to build, easy to burn.

S[ai] be[lie]ve[d]

They already posted their response: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

EDIT: it’s the lack of acknowledgement that they didn’t discover it but the contributor had to go in and correct it, how they locked and deleted the article, etc. I was expecting a bit more tbh

but what if the car lied though.

What a shame. I’ve subscribed to ars for years. Their response was disappointing, it doesn’t talk about what happened and what they’re doing to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Nothing about how they handled them makes me trust that they won’t do it again.

I’m pretty sure it lies