Irish Times AI hoax exposes problematic fake tan article.

The Irish Times retracted an op-ed criticizing Irish women for using fake tans after discovering it was allegedly submitted by someone using artificial intelligence to write it. The author of the article was said to be Adriana Acosta-Cortez, a 29-year-old Ecuadorian health worker from the Dublin area. However, it was later discovered that the author was using a fake identity and generated 80% of the story using Chat GPT4. The incident has highlighted a gap in the paper's pre-publication procedures and the challenges of dealing with AI-generated content.