ChatGPT is now really good at faking receipts – and OpenAI says that could be a good thing

• Fake receipts are now easy to generate with ChatGPT
• They’re convincing and additional tweaking makes them look very real
• OpenAI says metadata and usage policies will protect us

Generative AI appears to be fixing one of the most obvious problems with AI-generated imagery: the text. And while that’s welcome news for anyone fed up with seeing images containing absolute gibberish, it may have unintended consequences too – it turns out that ChatGPT is now pretty good at creating fake receipts.

The fakes aren’t completely convincing if you know what to look for: they’re a little too clean, a little too CGI, and sometimes get the sums wrong (like in our example above). But they’re also easy to miss – and with a bit of fiddling you can make them look more realistic with creases and food stains.