AI-generated fake tan article prompts apology from Irish Times editor

The Irish Times has apologized after publishing an opinion article which claimed fake tan was "problematic" and had been written by an Ecuadorian health worker called Adriana Acosta-Cortez. However, the article was actually 80% generated by GPT-4, and the author was a troll who created an AI profile picture with DALL-E. The incident has led to concerns over the use of AI in journalism. The article was removed within 24 hours and a review began. The hoaxer, a non-binary Irish college student, described the opinion piece as "divisive tripe."