False rumours have again been spreading over the resignation of United States Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler through the use artificial intelligence.
On July 1, a news story appeared on a website dubbed CryptoAlert claiming that Gensler had submitted his resignation following an internal investigation, citing an anonymous official.
However, It was found that the article’s text scored a 96.8% on third-party AI-detector ZeroGPT, indicating there is a high likelihood the vast majority of the text was generated by AI.
The website also appears to be very new, with only 17 posts in total, the first of which is dated June 22. Most of the articles appear to make heavy use of artificial intelligence, with all articles scoring about 70% with ZeroGPT.
In addition to the bulk of the text seemingly being AI-generated, registration records reveal that the website’s domain, “thecryptoalert.com,” was registered at 4:47 pm UTC on June 24.
Despite this, a number of accounts reposted the story on Twitter. The most widely viewed post was from Whalechart and had garnered 1.4 million views at the time of publication.
