{"id":13356,"date":"2026-01-05T00:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/doordash-says-it-banned-driver-who-seemingly-faked-a-delivery-using-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T00:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:16:22","slug":"doordash-says-it-banned-driver-who-seemingly-faked-a-delivery-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/doordash-says-it-banned-driver-who-seemingly-faked-a-delivery-using-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"DoorDash says it banned driver who seemingly faked a delivery using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DoorDash seems to have confirmed a viral story about a driver using an AI-generated photo to lie about making a delivery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As reported by Nexstar, Austin resident Byrne Hobart said he experienced this very thing, writing in a post on X: &ldquo;Amazing. DoorDash driver accepted the drive, immediately marked it as delivered, and submitted an AI-generated image of a DoorDash order (left) at our front door (right).&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After his post started getting attention, Hobart offered more details, acknowledging that his story would be &ldquo;pretty easy&rdquo; to fake. But he noted, &ldquo;Someone chimed in downthread to say that the same thing happened to him, also in Austin, with the same driver display name.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\" readability=\"6.1890243902439\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.6016260162602\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amazing. DoorDash driver accepted the drive, immediately marked it as delivered, and submitted an AI-generated image of a DoorDash order (left) at our front door (right). pic.twitter.com\/aGHQx9eexi<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Byrne Hobart (@ByrneHobart) December 27, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for how the driver pulled it off, Hobart speculated they used a hacked account on a jailbroken phone, obtaining an image of his front door through a DoorDash feature that shows photos from prior deliveries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A DoorDash spokesperson told TechCrunch, &ldquo;After quickly investigating this incident, our team permanently removed the Dasher&rsquo;s account and ensured the customer was made whole. We have zero tolerance for fraud and use a combination of technology and human review to detect and prevent bad actors from abusing our platform.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>DoorDash says it banned driver who seemingly faked a delivery using AI<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DoorDash seems to have confirmed a viral story about a driver using an AI-generated photo to lie about making a delivery. As reported by Nexstar, Austin resident Byrne Hobart said he experienced this very thing, writing in a post on X: &ldquo;Amazing. DoorDash driver accepted the drive, immediately marked it as delivered, and submitted an&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/doordash-says-it-banned-driver-who-seemingly-faked-a-delivery-using-ai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;DoorDash says it banned driver who seemingly faked a delivery using AI&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}