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[–] artyom@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago (14 children)

When I suggested he be fired on another thread I received several responses saying "he made a mistake" and "he was sick", and many downvotes in return.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The comments here around this were so... Off. I guess nothing was certain, but we were supposed to believe that the author was too sick to write an article, but also writing an article and using an AI "tool" at the same time.

Hindsight is 20/20, but popular defenses at the time were

He wrote the article himself, he just got mixed up when experimenting with using an AI tool to help him extract quotes from a blog entry. (He is the head AI writer, so learning about these tools is his job.) It was nonetheless his failure to check the quotes he was copying from his note to make sure that he got them right… but an important bit of context is that he had COVID while doing all this.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

If he had Covid, then why was he working?

[–] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

Sick time/PTO is a treasured resource here in the US. You don’t waste what little you might have on a silly thing like covid…

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