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New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports (arstechnica.com)

submitted 20 hours ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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The fact that workers with expense accounts still feel they're getting paid so little that they deserve to commit fraud says something about that stratum of employee.

Businesses are increasingly being deceived by employees using artificial intelligence for an age-old scam: faking expense receipts.

The launch of new image-generation models by top AI groups such as OpenAI and Google in recent months has sparked an influx of AI-generated receipts submitted internally within companies, according to leading expense software platforms.

Software provider AppZen said fake AI receipts accounted for about 14 percent of fraudulent documents submitted in September, compared with none last year. Fintech group Ramp said its new software flagged more than $1 million in fraudulent invoices within 90 days.

About 30 percent of US and UK financial professionals surveyed by expense management platform Medius reported they had seen a rise in falsified receipts following the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-4o last year.

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[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 24 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The fact that workers with expense accounts still feel they’re getting paid so little that they deserve to commit fraud says something about that stratum of employee.

Pretty much anyone who travels has to submit receipts. Most people who travel are not making bank. They're the people who set up and stand at convention booths, sales staff support, assistants, videographers, etc. Also, most travel is a miserable ordeal. I'm not saying it's okay to commit fraud, but let's not equate the hourly employee "re-creating" his lost lunch receipt with a 6-figure income.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 10 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I used to be required to track all the receipts for travel years ago, and at some point like a decade ago the state figured out way more money was being spent on budgeting, reimbursing, and auditing each purchase individually than they would save by just doing a flat per diem rate for food and incidental expenses based on travel location.

I still keep my receipts long enough to make sure I'm not going over what I will be reimbursed, but shred them when I get home.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 8 points 18 hours ago

Yeah we recently switched to per diem for meals. Still have to keep receipts for hotels and vehicle rentals/gas etc but it's nice not having to juggle 60 meal receipts.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 18 hours ago

in my country it used to be like this for 50 years, you get flat rate per day, counted up to fractions of day, separately for accomodation and food + everything else. you only have to keep transportation tickets