> Ars Technica picked up the story. Their article included quotes attributed to Shambaugh. The problem: he never said any of them. The quotes don’t exist anywhere on his blog. Shambaugh’s site blocks AI scraping, and he believes the article was AI-assisted.

Ars has now admitted it in an editors note so bad that it too could be parrot squawk.

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retractio...

It conceals the name of the article and names of its two authors.