A retired cook saw a recipe for chocolate acorns in the visual digital board Pinterest and decided to bake it for dessert for Thanksgiving dinner. 

After five hours in the kitchen, Brenda Goodman could not shape the Nutter Butter, peanut-shaped wafers with peanut butter filling into acorn caps. Instead, she got “globs of chocolate-dunked peanut butter sandwich cookies that didn’t come close to resembling acorns,” Goodman said in an article published online by CNN. 

The chocolate melted and could not coat the cookies thickly enough to look like acorns, according to CNN. 

Goodman said she tried to contact the author of the recipe for advice through her blogsites DessertsPro.com and MuffinIdeas.com but her emails were returned as undeliverable. Food blogger Adam Gallagher said the website and its contents were artificial intelligence (AI)-generated and the recipe was AI-generated, too, CNN reports. 

Meanwhile, police in Ohio, USA responded to a report of a robbery at a local restaurant on 15 December. 

The Elyria Police Department dispatched all available units to Rubin’s Deli & Restaurant. Officers were confused, however, when they arrived and found customers dining and the staff working normally. 

An investigation of the emergency call by the owner found that the robbery was a prank. 

Police learned that two employees were behind the fake robbery. Todd Durst, 45, apparently created an AI-generated photo of masked robbers breaking into the restaurant using ChatGPT, NDTV reports. 

Durst sent the image to co-worker Luis Acevedo Jr. who forwarded it to the owner, who then called the police thinking the robbery was real. 

Durst was arrested at the restaurant while Acevedo escaped and remains at large. Durst was detained and charged with swatting and obstructing official business, according to NDTV.