IEntitled “Irish people’s obsession with fake tans is problematic”, the article, published on Thursday, quickly became one of the most read on the newspaper’s website.
the Irish Times withdrew it on Friday and on Sunday deemed its publication “constituted a breach of trust between The Irish Times and its readers”.
To the British newspaper The Guardian, an internet user declared that he had used the AI instrument GPT-4 to create about 80% of the article.
The fraudster also explained that the profile picture used in the text was created with the help of the Dalle-E 2 image generator.
He claimed to be an Irish student who had written the article to provoke a debate about identity politics and “make (his) friends laugh”.
In a statement, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Ruadhan Mac Cormaic, said that “the incident highlighted gaps in the procedures upstream of publication” of the texts.
“It also highlighted one of the challenges posed by artificial intelligence to the media. Like others, we will learn and adapt”, he added.
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