This month, ChatGPT unveiled a brand new picture generator as a part of its 4o mannequin that may be a lot higher at producing textual content inside photos.Β
Individuals are already utilizing it to generate faux restaurant receipts, probably including one other instrument to the already-extensive toolkit of AI deepfakes utilized by fraudsters.
Prolific social media poster and VC Deedy Das posted on X a photograph of a faux receipt for a (actual) San Francisco steakhouse that he says was created with 4o.
Others had been in a position to replicate related outcomes, together with one with meals or drink stains to make it look much more genuine:
Probably the most real-looking instance Trendster discovered was really from France, the place a LinkedIn consumer posted a crinkled-up AI-generated receipt for an area restaurant chain:
Trendster examined 4o and was additionally in a position to generate a faux receipt for an Applebeeβs in San Francisco:
However our try had a few lifeless giveaways that it was faked. For one, the whole makes use of a comma as a substitute of a interval. For an additional, the maths doesnβt add up. LLMs nonetheless battle to do primary math, so this isnβt significantly stunning.
However it wouldnβt be onerous for a fraudster to rapidly repair a couple of of the numbers with both photograph enhancing software program or, probably, extra exact prompts.
Itβs clear that making it very easy to generate faux receipts presents enormous alternatives for fraud. It wouldnβt be onerous to think about this sort of tech being utilized by dangerous actors to get βreimbursedβ for completely faux bills.
OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson advised Trendster that every one of its photos embrace metadata indicating they had been made by ChatGPT. Christianson added that OpenAI βtakes motionβ when customers violate its utilization insurance policies and that itβs βall the time studyingβ from real-world use and suggestions.
Trendster then requested why ChatGPT permits folks to generate faux receipts within the first place, and whether or not that is according to OpenAIβs utilization insurance policies (which ban fraud.)
Christianson replied that OpenAIβs βpurpose is to present customers as a lot inventive freedom as attainableβ and that faux AI receipts could possibly be utilized in non-fraud conditions like βinstructing folks about monetary literacyβ together with creating authentic artwork and product adverts.