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I'm a developer for a major food delivery app
That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
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Re: That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
#12So, The Verge wrote an article claiming something was generated by AI, by asking an AI.
There was no investigation, they just asked an AI and published what the AI said.
Re: That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
#13So, The Verge wrote an article claiming something was generated by AI, by asking an AI. There was no investigation, they just asked an AI and published what the AI said.
Well, they also provided a fake "employee badge" to the Verge, which Uber confirmed was fake.
Re: That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
#14I’m not sure if the Verge has been living under a rock, but like 80% of social media posts are rewritten by AIs these days, by the OP themselves. Heck, even a large chunk of articles and blogs too. Without making a judgement either way, that does not mean the story itself is fake.
Re: That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
#15So, The Verge wrote an article claiming something was generated by AI, by asking an AI. There was no investigation, they just asked an AI and published what the AI said.
Well, they also provided a fake "employee badge" to the Verge, which Uber confirmed was fake.
The wording doesn't indicate that they asked themselves.
Plus, I'm finding other sources that did more investigation: https://www.hardresetmedia.com/p/an-ai-generated-reddit-post...
Re: That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
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Re: That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
#17Hacker News fakes posts later ( AKA the famous Dropbox post )
The best web archive is 22 hours in (.is is 2 hours with same top) and the top believes the post. Nihilist and a NPC failure to understand tech and industry[1] FTW
https://web.archive.org/web/20260103035501/https://news.ycom...
[1] Both programming and business logic are rubbish in the post. A childhish view of the world from people who have never been there.
[edit] If Hacker News can show posts archived after they drop off page x they should do that.
If Hacker News wants to pretend they are archiving history show an accessible frozen copy. If we can't delete old posts because the history matters, this does too.
It wouldn't hurt to watch voting real time either over 24-48 hours. This is scrape-able if collected real time. Data project left to reader. No idea if you'd see anything. India votes different to the USA, you might see that.
Re: That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
#18> The Verge put the original 586-word Reddit post through several free online AI detectors, in addition to Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The results were mixed: Copyleaks, GPTZero, Pangram, Gemini, and Claude all pegged it as likely AI-generated, but ZeroGPT and QuillBot both reported it as human-written. ChatGPT played it down the middle. Why does anyone, let alone a journalist, trust these? They are worse than usele…
Can you actually ask an LLM if content is AI-generated? Surely that wouldn't work reliably at all?
Re: That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
#19Is this the same publication that reported on the post without any hedge whatsoever?
Yes, it was: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/853018/a-developer-f...
"A developer for a ‘major food delivery app’ says the ‘algorithms are rigged against you."
"There’s some debate as to whether the claims are as bad as the OP makes them seem, but it seems like there’s general agreement that the gist of the post is legit."
And, yet, they don't even mention it in their original post. They haven't issued a correction. Isn't this journalism 101?
Re: That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
#20> The Verge put the original 586-word Reddit post through several free online AI detectors, in addition to Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The results were mixed: Copyleaks, GPTZero, Pangram, Gemini, and Claude all pegged it as likely AI-generated, but ZeroGPT and QuillBot both reported it as human-written. ChatGPT played it down the middle. Why does anyone, let alone a journalist, trust these? They are worse than usele…
Can you actually ask an LLM if content is AI-generated? Surely that wouldn't work reliably at all?
Of course you can ask an LLM if the content is AI-generated. It's easily at least 50% accurate too.