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10-16-2023 Redaction Reversed by ChatGPT But Is It Accurate?
PLUS: Scammers fleece Uber Eats for $1 million.
Lisa D. Sparks
October 16, 2023
I hope you don’t mind a bit of a departure from our usual Editor’s Note. I’ve been published in ITPro.com and I’d love for you to let me know your thoughts.
Today’s Top 5 News Stories in Tech, Race, and Gender
1 / Scared Yet? Programmer Uses ChatGPT to Decode Redacted Government Documents
The video below shows a chilling example of how Brian Roemmele exposed redacted (blacked out) text on a classified document from NASA.
ChatGPT-4V Multimodal decodes a Redacted government document on a UFO sighting released by NASA.
I have tested this on 100s of redacted documents and I can say we are in a new world.
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele)
8:52 PM • Oct 6, 2023
Of course, it's hard to verify whether its guess at what's otherwise obscured is accurate—it’s not like we can ask the CIA how well it did peering through the black lines.
2/ Blame it on the Heat? Two Florida Scammers Swipe $1M Using the Uber Eats App
Image from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office’s surveillance of two offenders running a scam through Uber Eats.
Online food delivery app Uber Eats gets finessed out of $1 million by two people in Broward County, Florida. The two posed as both customer and driver to pocket the fees from their Uber-issued credit card. Because the men were both the customer and driver, they didn’t complain when they didn’t receive the groceries they ordered. The Broward County Sheriff’s office reported the pair pocketed $5,013.28 in one day. The offenders conducted these illegal operations from January 2022 until their arrest in August 2023. Read more here.
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