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Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit (platformer.news)
22 points by ohmahjong 166 days ago
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eleventen 166 days ago
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

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suzzer99 165 days ago
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.
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ohmahjong 165 days ago
At least both of those threads contain a healthy amount of skepticism in the comments
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4d4m 165 days ago
A reporter asking GPT whether the artifacts are AI generated is not the debunking the reporter thinks. Journalism is a joke today.
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aprilnya 165 days ago
It is, because of SynthID.

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

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

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hiciu 165 days ago
this is exactly how gemini synthid works and how you are supposed to use it

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

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