Ars Technica

“Ars Technica has gotten very bad over the years. IMHO not worth reading for many, many years now.”

“Ars has had a depreciating quality the past few years by most accounts.”

“very informative articles over the years about the science of forecasting”

“God I hate how worthless Ars has become. Sensationalism, clickbait, and car ads.”

“they should have fired the journalist in question immediately, and come out hard against slop writing”

“First, they broke page loading without javascript, now they slopifying reporting.”

“I'm glad they're declaring outright that they're (as we suspected for a while now) a slop factory.”

“I don't remember the last time I went to arstechnica, I guess because they didn't standout compared to just asking Grok”

“If it isn't clear from this policy that Ars is run by the advertisers and not the subscribers…”

“I'm very glad that Ars allows me to subscribe so that I don't have to see the ads”

“I hope editorial departments everywhere are taking careful notes on the ars technica fiasco”

“Ars used to actually write about such things in their articles instead of speculate”

“And where's Ars in all this? (which suffers from some of the same problems/quality/timing”

“A few years ago I liked Ars Technica, but then somehow I think quality went down the drain.”

“I've found that they have more journalistic integrity than most mainstream news pages.”

“I was disappointed by Ars's response. They deleted the article and didn't detail what was wrong with it at all.”

“it's indistinguishable from the kind of PR-copy-paste blogspam 'coverage' you'd see from a place that will never have the reputation Ars used to”

“Not a great look, if Ars either doesn't know, or can't control what they're actually publishing.”

“ArsTechica just did the same - removed Nora from older articles. How can you trust ArsTechica after that?”

“They are owner of ArsTechnica which wrote 3rd (or 4th?) article on AT in a row painting it in certain colors.”

“Yeah I'll be taking their articles with a grain of salt for the near future.”

“Thanks for affirming that ignoring Ars comment section and Ars in general was a good decision”

“When they started doing car reviews where "GM didn't pay for this car review, they just paid for a car review." everyone should've clued in.”

“Default assumption should be that it's all hallucinated unless you've checked it personally.”

“I still have Ars but I have to weed through a lot of stuff like the political articles.”

“Ars has been operating at an exceptionally high level for their entire history”

“I’ll still read the (mostly space) articles at Ars”

“Ars is one of the few news sources I consistently read…”

“they basically dropped their journalism levels to reddit quality”

“I miss the days when they would publish super in-depth articles on computing.”

“They also have a strange obsession with stories about vaccines, rare scary ailments, and child porn.”

“it heavily promoting the popular-online side of a very controversial subject”

“to some extent Arstechnica (specially John Siracusa's OS X reviews) are the rare category 2.”

“watched it slowly devolve from a place where thoughtful discussions happened to now just being one of the worst echo chambers”

“Eric Berger space coverage still remains Ars’ strong suit.”

“Printing hallucinated quotes is a huge shock to their credibility, AI or not.”

“trading on a formerly trusted brand name that recent iterations simply don't live up to anymore”

“Extremely shameful of Ars Technica; I used to consider them a decent news source and my estimation of them has gone down quite a bit.”

“Completely stupid text, but it is successful slop for the mindless Russian-hating crowd.”

“Ars is one of the better tech blogs out there, but it still has instances of biased reporting”