TBF even journalists who interview people for real and take notes routinely quite them saying things they didn't say. The LLMs make it worse, but it's hardly surprising behaviour from them

It's surprising behavior to come from Ars Technica. But also when journalists misquote it's through a different phrasing of something that Pepe have actually said, sometimes with different emphasis or eve meaning. But of the people I've known who have been misquoted it's always traceable to something they actually did say.

I knew first hand about a couple of news in my life. Both were reported quite incorrectly. That was well before LLMs. I assume that every news is quite inaccurate, so I read/hear them to get the general gist of what happened, then I research the details if I care about them.