Viral Reddit Confessions About a “Major Food Delivery App” Posted January 2nd is possibly AI-generated. The original post by user Trowaway_whistleblow alleges that an unnamed food delivery company routinely delays customers’ orders, calls couriers “human property” and takes advantage of their “desperation” for cash, along with other inexcusable actions. Nearly 90,000 upvotes and four days later, it has become clear that the text of the post is likely AI-generated.
The Verge Put the original 586-word Reddit post through several free online AI detectors, including Gemini, ChatGPT, and Cloud. The results were mixed: CopyLeaks, GPTZero, Pangram, Gemini, and Cloud all described it as possibly AI-generated, but ZeroGPT and Quillbot both described it as human-authored. ChatGPT ran it in the middle.
reached by The Verge On Signal, Troway_whistleblow provided an image of an alleged Uber Eats employee badge. casey newton platformer And hard fork Also informed about receipt of badge photo And noted that Gemini has marked it as AI,
Using Google Gemini to check an image In the email they sent us, it confirmed that “Based on digital watermark analysis, most or all of this image was edited or generated with Google AI.” The digital watermark check for images added to Gemini in November looks for Google’s SynthID watermark, an “inconspicuous” tag attached to content generated by its AI tools.
hard resetA Substack publication, informed troway_whistleblow gave reporter Alex Schultz an alleged internal Uber document — but as soon as Schultz began pressing him about the document’s authenticity, he quickly deleted his Signal account. The VergeIn chat with trowaway_whistleblow a message appears stating “This person is not using Signal.”
Uber denies the contents of the Reddit post and the employee badge photo. “Not only are the claims false, they are simply false,” said Uber spokesperson Noah Edwardson. The VergeAndrew McDonald of Uber Eats wrote On X, “This post is definitely not about us. I suspect it is completely fabricated. Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.”
And also DoorDash CEO Tony Xu rejected Redditor’s “terrible” allegations in a post on X. “This is not DoorDash, and I will fire anyone who promotes or tolerates the culture described in this Reddit post,” Xu wrote.
Correction, January 5: An earlier version of this post cited Gemini’s text response to the content of the employee badge image as evidence that it was AI-generated. The Gemini tool was used to investigate the presence of synthID The watermark it found indicates that it was edited or generated by Google AI.
