Given Heise's reputation under normal circumstances, is it worth flagging this up with the editor? They might pull the article.
On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:12:27 +0100 Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > German publisher heise.de has published a pre-print of an article > about OpenSSH 9.9 slated to appear in the next issue of their print > magazine iX. Paywalled and in German: > https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Wie-OpenSSH-9-9-durch-zahlreiche-Verbesserungen-quantensicher-werden-will-10284473.html > > Heise is usually considered quality IT journalism, so it is quite > surprising that this article contains blatant errors. I'll go out > on a limb and say it has been generated by an AI tool. It has the > typical writing style and hallucinations. In particular, the AI > appears to have conflated the OQS-OpenSSH fork with the official > OpenSSH releases. > > I have no idea if that's an April fool's, some sort of test, or if > the editors fell victim to a scam. Anyway, I thought I'd put a > warning out. >
