Incredible. When Ars pull an article and its comments, they wipe the public XenForo forum thread too, but Scott's post there was archived. Username scottshambaugh:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260213211721/https://arstechni...
>Scott Shambaugh here. None of the quotes you attribute to me in the second half of the article are accurate, and do not exist at the source you link. It appears that they themselves are AI hallucinations. The irony here is fantastic.
Instead of cross-checking the fake quotes against the source material, some proud Ars Subscriptors proceed to defend Condé Nast by accusing Scott of being a bot and/or fake account.
EDIT: Page 2 of the forum thread is archived too. This poster spoke too soon:
>Obviously this is massive breach of trust if true and I will likely end my pro sub if this isnt handled well but to the credit of ARS, having this comment section at all is what allows something like this to surface. So kudos on keeping this chat around.
This is just one of the reasons archiving is so important in the digital era; it's key to keeping people honest.
Yes, Wayback machine/archive.org is one of the best websites on the whole world wide web.
I'm unemployed and on a tight budget, and I still give a recurring donation to archive.org
It's that important.
Agreed and that's why there's an incentive to DDoS it and degrade the quality. Are there any p2p backup solutions?
There are some various attempts, the problem is reliability - not that they're always up, but how do you trust them? If archive.org shows a page at a date, you presume it is true and correct. If I provide a PDF of a site at a date, you have no reason to believe I didn't modify the content before PDFing it.
I read the forum thread, and most people seem to be critical of ars. One person said scott is a bot, but this read to me as a joke about the situation
The comment calling him a bot is sarcasm.