An Irish newspaper trapped by a false opinion piece created by artificial intelligence

2023-05-15 19:03:28

The Irish Daily The Irish Times apologized following posting a fake forum created by artificial intelligence, claiming to have been the victim of “deliberate deception”.

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Title Irish women’s obsession with fake tans is problematicthe paper, published on Thursday, quickly became one of the most read articles on the newspaper’s website.

The Irish Times deleted the article the next day and said on Sunday that its publication “constituted a breach of trust between The Irish Times and its readers. “We are sincerely sorry. »

The deleted article, which falsely claimed that Irish women’s use of fake tans was a matter of cultural appropriation, was by a fictional Ecuadorian writer named Adriana Acosta-Cortez.

To the British newspaper The Guardiana user with a Twitter account of the same name said he used the artificial intelligence tool GPT-4 to create regarding 80% of the article.

The author of the hoax also explained that the profile photo used in the forum, which provoked a debate on the radio and on social networks, had been created using the Dalle-E 2 image generator.

He claimed to be an Irish student who had submitted the article to create a debate around identity politics and “to make (his) friends laugh”.

“The incident has exposed shortcomings in our pre-publication procedures,” the newspaper’s editor, Ruadhan Mac Cormaic, wrote in a statement.

“It also highlighted one of the challenges posed by artificial intelligence for news organizations. Like others, we will learn and adapt,” he added.

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