Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

[subdavis]

It'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

[suzzer99]

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.

[ohmahjong]

At least both of those threads contain a healthy amount of skepticism in the comments

[4d4m]

A reporter asking GPT whether the artifacts are AI generated is not the debunking the reporter thinks. Journalism is a joke today.

[aprilnya]

It is, because of SynthID.

Checked it myself: https://gemini.google.com/share/825ee3c53dd8

More info about SynthID: https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/

[hiciu]

this is exactly how gemini synthid works and how you are supposed to use it

https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16722517