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ChatGPT’s new image generator is really good at faking receipts


This month, ChatGPT unveiled a new image generator as part of its 4o model that is a lot better at generating text inside images.  People are already

Prolific social media poster and VC Deedy Das posted on X a photo of a fake receipt for a (real) San Francisco steakhouse that he says was created with 4o. TechCrunch then asked why ChatGPT allows people to generate fake receipts in the first place, and whether this is line with OpenAI’s usage policies(which ban fraud.) Christianson replied that OpenAI’s “goal is to give users as much creative freedom as possible,” and that fake AI receipts could be used in non-fraud situations like “teaching people about financial literacy” along with creating original art and product ads.

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