Food delivery whistleblower is a hoax?

Hmmm. So we can trust nothing from the internet now?

Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

Casey Newton Jan 5, 2026 | Platformer | Link

A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok’s image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5

A journalist contacted the Reddit whistleblower and tries to get an interview and more information. The whistleblower throws the whistleblower a “fake” ArXiv paper and used a Uber-Eat ID card generated by AI.

Conspiracy theorists might be plotting up PR scheme right now — if so, this would be the most brilliant one ever imagined. AI really makes us unable to believe anything, right?