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Casey Newton
Casey Newton
@caseynewton@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

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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Casey Newton
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@caseynewton@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

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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Fake Reddit Post "Whistleblower" Document

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@meko@outerheaven.club replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
@caseynewton now I wonder about another side of such a stories.

1. Overtime more and more companies will use an AI-generated text in documents. It is how it is. "Read this algorithm and create a dull documentation for a higher-up management". And AI feelings from the text will mean much less.
2. To protect themselves from whistleblowers companies may share documents like this but edited by an AI so than detectors will report AI usage and no one out of the company will believe it. "Hey Gemini please add a" Confidential" watermark to the document pages" or so on. And I have no idea if these maliciously AI-edited real photos will be shown the same way as AI generated from scratch fake ones.
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