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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Kirk@startrek.website to c/technology@beehaw.org

Backstory here: https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/

Personally I think this is a good response. I hope they stay true to it in the future.

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[-] artyom@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago

Thank fuck Bsky has these character limits or else he would have had to put all that text in an easily legible format for reading and copying. Fuck character limits up their stupid asses.

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

The author added the entire text in the alt text if you click on the image and then the ... to see the full thing. Can easily copy and paste from that or read it there instead

[-] artyom@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

All the more stupid. Why is it hidden in the alt text and not in the text of the post?

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 20 hours ago

Not using an ActivityPub based platform has it's drawbacks I guess

[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago

Some bluesky clients/instances support longer posts.

this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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