Ars Technica Retracted Article After Purportedly AI-Generated Text Was Presented as Direct Quotes From Matplotlib Maintainer
Date: 2026-02-13
Affected: Ars Technica, Benj Edwards, Openai
Attack vector: rce
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1392: Ars Technica Retracted Article After Purportedly AI-Generated Text Was Presented as Direct Quotes From Matplotlib Maintainer. Alleged deployer/developer: Ars Technica, Benj Edwards, Openai. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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