Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

eleventen wrote: post #2

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

At least both of those threads contain a healthy amount of skepticism in the comments

Re: Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

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Post by 4d4m » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 8:00 PM UTC

A reporter asking GPT whether the artifacts are AI generated is not the debunking the reporter thinks. Journalism is a joke today.

Re: Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

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Post by suzzer99 » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 8:41 PM UTC

eleventen wrote: post #2

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

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.

Re: Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

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Post by hiciu » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 9:46 PM UTC

4d4m wrote: post #5

A reporter asking GPT whether the artifacts are AI generated is not the debunking the reporter thinks. Journalism is a joke today.

this is exactly how gemini synthid works and how you are supposed to use it

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

Re: Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

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Post by aprilnya » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 3:48 AM UTC

4d4m wrote: post #5

A reporter asking GPT whether the artifacts are AI generated is not the debunking the reporter thinks. Journalism is a joke today.

It is, because of SynthID.

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

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