The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents.
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The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
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The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
I really encourage folks to check out the document he sent me. Once you know it's fake, the mistakes are easy to spot. But it still amazes me to think that he likely generated this within a few minutes https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26456842-fake-reddit-post-whistleblower-document/
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The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
I really encourage folks to check out the document he sent me. Once you know it's fake, the mistakes are easy to spot. But it still amazes me to think that he likely generated this within a few minutes https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26456842-fake-reddit-post-whistleblower-document/
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The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
@caseynewton i feel so despondent. How many hours will a journalist need to spend as #AI improves? Give me some hope!
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@caseynewton i feel so despondent. How many hours will a journalist need to spend as #AI improves? Give me some hope!
It’s not improving, despite what the techbro slop-merchants say (and the media unthinkingly regurgitates) - if anything it’s getting worse.
GenAI has already slurped up pretty much the entirety of human knowledge to date, and it’s only accurate/true less than 30% of the time. Now it’s consuming its own error-riddled slop, poisoning its own well, and the so-called “hallucination” issue is inherent to how LLMs work - it’s a dead end.
There is always hope.
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@caseynewton i feel so despondent. How many hours will a journalist need to spend as #AI improves? Give me some hope!
It’s not improving, despite what the techbro slop-merchants say (and the media unthinkingly regurgitates) - if anything it’s getting worse.
GenAI has already slurped up pretty much the entirety of human knowledge to date, and it’s only accurate/true less than 30% of the time. Now it’s consuming its own error-riddled slop, poisoning its own well, and the so-called “hallucination” issue is inherent to how LLMs work - it’s a dead end.
There is always hope.
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@caseynewton i feel so despondent. How many hours will a journalist need to spend as #AI improves? Give me some hope!
@sheislaurence one possible source of hope is that AI also helped me debunk this one
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The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
@caseynewton and this is why AI needs regulation now.
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The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
@caseynewton Is there a reason you run AI ads on your website?
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The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
@caseynewton Besides the point now since you know it was generated, but during my time at Uber (specifically on eats) I can't say I'd ever seen an "Uber Eats" badge - they're just Uber badges
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@caseynewton Besides the point now since you know it was generated, but during my time at Uber (specifically on eats) I can't say I'd ever seen an "Uber Eats" badge - they're just Uber badges
@shnhrrsn yeah have heard that from several folks ... definitely good for me to know!
