AI Incident Database - Incident 1392
Source evidence cited by public records. This page shows where the source is used, its trust tier, and when it was last checked in the seed.
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- epistemic-integrity
entity | 30 June 2026 | 70%
epistemic-integrity - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- ars-technica
entity | 3 May 2026 | 70%
ars-technica - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- ars-technica-readers
entity | 3 May 2026 | 70%
ars-technica-readers - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- benj-edwards
entity | 3 May 2026 | 70%
benj-edwards - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- open-source-maintainers
entity | 3 May 2026 | 70%
open-source-maintainers - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- scott-shambaugh
entity | 3 May 2026 | 70%
scott-shambaugh - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- Ars Technica Retracted Article After Purportedly AI-Generated Text Was Presented as Direct Quotes From Matplotlib Maintainer
event | 3 May 2026 | 82%
Ars Technica retracted an article after purportedly AI-generated text was presented as direct quotations from a source who disputed having said them. The editor-in-chief reportedly acknowledged a standards failure and said the publication was not consistent with Ars policy on AI-generated material, and apologized to readers and to matplotlib maintainer Scott Shambaugh. An author reportedly later said he had inadvertently used an AI-paraphrased version of the source text as q…