Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
platformer.newsIt's so wonderfully fitting that the original story was posted twice and got 620 upvotes while this flies by unacknowledged.
Thread 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461563 620 points
Thread 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461578 159 points
Like it says at the end of the article: A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
At least both of those threads contain a healthy amount of skepticism in the comments
A reporter asking GPT whether the artifacts are AI generated is not the debunking the reporter thinks. Journalism is a joke today.
It is, because of SynthID.
Checked it myself: https://gemini.google.com/share/825ee3c53dd8
More info about SynthID: https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/
this is exactly how gemini synthid works and how you are supposed to use it