AI Hoax Article Fools Historic Irish Newspaper
The Irish Times, a venerable 164-year-old newspaper, recently made a public apology for publishing a controversial op-ed purportedly written by a young Latinx immigrant to Ireland. The paper revealed that the piece was a sham, created using generative AI technology, by an individual who was not who they claimed to be. The sham article titled “Irish women’s obsession with fake tan is problematic,” was supposedly penned by an Ecuadorian immigrant named Adriana Acosta-Cortez. It controversially accused white Irish women……