So the original blogger got slandered by an LLM agent, then got slandered again by a human journalist who used an LLM agent to write the article about him getting slandered by an LLM agent? How ironic.

But, does that mean he got slandered twice by an LLM agent or once by an agent and once by a human? Or was he technically slandered 3 times? Twice by agents and a third time by the journalist? New questions for the new agentic society.

▲

sparky_z 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He was only slandered once, by the LLM Agent. The Ars Technica article had presented paraphrases that it falsely attributed as direct quotes, and was therefore factually incorrect reporting. But it was not defamatory by any reasonable standard. Slander isn't just a synonym of "lie".

	▲	th0ma5 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		[dead]
	▲	Revanche1367 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I wasn’t using the word in a legal sense, poindexter. I didn’t pretend to be a lawyer either. Slander in the colloquial sense is whatever the person doesn’t want attributed to them and is often used as synonym for a lie. Besides, I am sure you could tell it was just a joke but needed to be pedantic for no reason other than feel smart?

▲

zarflax 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, the journalist came in and slandered the LLM Twice and Jim Fell.

	▲	gdulli 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"Who are you, and how did you lose your job?" "I'm an AI reporter. And, I'm an AI reporter."

▲

amstan 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

4 times, you forgot the owner of the bot that did the PR.

	▲	Revanche1367 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed, you’re right.