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Reddit’s ‘Celebrity Number Six’ Win Was Almost a Catastrophe—Thanks to AI

This week, Reddit solved the long-running Celebrity Number Six mystery, but it almost got derailed thanks to accusations that the missing piece was made with AI.

Sussing out exactly what happened is tough, and a message from WIRED to the mods of the Celebrity Number Six subreddit went unanswered, but it seems as though once IndigoRoom shared their findings on the community’s Discord, someone replied saying that the image they’d posted was fake, possibly AI-generated. ” Texas senator Ted Cruz posted a meme-style image macro of a pair of embracing kittens with the text “Please vote for Trump so the Haitian immigrants don’t eat us.” It was accompanied by three cry-laughing emojis. Mere moments after the debate ended, Taylor Swift grabbed her phone (presumably) and typed out an Instagram post that both decried AI misinformation and endorsed Kamala Harris.

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