AI-generated fake news sparks rumors of Gary Gensler’s resignation

Discontentment has yet again been circulating regarding the potential resignation of the Executive Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler – and this time, speculations suggest, Artificial Intelligence may have been involved.
On July 1st, an article emerged on the website ‘thecryptoalert.com’ which reported with an unidentified source that Chair Gensler had presented his resignation subsequent to an in-house inquiry. Nonetheless, it came to the fore after Cointelegraph subjected the content to examination with the AI-detector ZeroGPT that it obtained a score of 96.8%, catering to the hypothesized use of AI for generating the text. What’s more, the domain of the website revealed further back history, seemingly just recently emerging with just 17 pages, the earliest posted as of June 22nd. While all the pages were estimated to entail the application of AI with ZeroGPT revealing their score outperforming 70%.

In spite of this, multiple accounts shared this non-factual rumour across both Twitter and other social networking sites. The most far-reaching post pertaining to the issue was released by an account ‘@whalechart’ accruing up to 1.4 million page-views by the time of reporting of this issue. On July 3rd, a journalist with Fox Business Network, Charles Gasparino publicly declared the fake news providing an update that the reported resigning will not take place after SEC declared.

It was discovered that this wasn’t respectively the first suspicion presented against the alleged renunciation of Chair Gensler, with an April 20 news reporting a dishonest source revealing Gensler’s ‘ forthcoming termination ‘., followed by the arriving of the ‘SEC stabilization Act’ introduced before the House of Representatives as of June 12, requesting to invalidate the ‘tyrannical chair’. However, investigating its reputation makes it evident that there were in fact conjured up.

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