AI-Written Hoax Article About Tans and Racism Fools Irish Newspaper

As if the prank wasn’t humiliating enough, a Twitter account adopting Acosta-Crotez’s personality kept the ruse going online. At first, the Twitter account responded to comments and criticisms from readers. It’s not clear whether the account belongs to the person behind the scam, but the Twitter user clearly had prior knowledge about the incident.

The person said they were Irish, a college student and identified as non-binary. They said they created the Acosta-Cortez persona by repurposing the Twitter account, which dates from February 2021, by using some Spanish and following Ecuadorian outlets. They said they used GPT-4 to create approximately 80% of the article and the image generator Dalle-E 2 to create a profile picture of a quintessential “woke” journalist using the prompts “female, overweight, blue hair, business casual clothing, smug expression”.

The hoax’s goal was “to give my friends a laugh” and “to stir the shit” in the debate about identity politics. “Some people have called me an alt-right troll but I don’t think that I am. I think that identity politics is an extremely unhelpful lens through which to interpret the world.”Irish journalist Cianan Brennan criticized the imposter for their self-induced outrage, calling out the so-far anonymous person for grandstanding and confused intentions. “Whole thing is just juvenile.

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