Irish newspaper gets pranked into publishing piece on ‘how spray tans are problematic’ by a fake Twitter account pretending to be an Ecuadorian health worker
The Irish Times has now taken down a woke story that was critical of Irish women using fake tans after it was discovered that the piece had been submitted by someone who used artificial intelligence to write it. The opinion piece was apparently published on May 11 and claimed that “Irish women’s obsession with fake tan is problematic,” per Fox News.
The article in question was reportedly submitted by Adriana Acosta-Cortez, an Ecuadorian health worker from Dublin, who did not actually exist. The woke op-ed piece exposed a vulnerable spot in the publication process of the outlet, with editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic saying that the incident “was a breach of the trust between the Irish Times and its readers, and we are genuinely sorry.”
Chat GPT4 to generate about 80 percent of the piece.
Additionally, the submitter also used Dalle-E 2 to create a profile photo of a standard-looking woke journalist, using such prompts as “female, overweight, blue hair, business casual clothing, smug expression,” per The Guardian.
A Twitter account that seemed to belong to Acosta-Cortez was found to be a fake, which the account admitted when it said that it was just “stirring the sh**,” per the report.
The fake account posted to Twitter on Friday, saying: “@IrishTimes genuinely sad that a once respectable news source has degraded themselves with such divisive tripe in order to generate clicks and traffic for their website. You need a better screening process than a believable gmail address.”
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