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An L.A. deep-dish institution takes on an AI-generated pizza scam.
For nearly a quarter-century, Masa of Echo Park has been serving up huge pizza pies — emphasis on the pie — in the famous style of the Windy City. Its two Chicagoan owners, Rhonda Reynolds and Rob Rowe, sell authentic deep-dish pizzas that stand two inches tall and are packed with cheese, tomato sauce, meats, and veggies. Unlike its flatter brethren, a deep-dish pizza is pretty damn hard to burn. But a recent deceitful DoorDash customer found a way: They used AI to make a Masa deep-dish look like it had been charred to a crisp and filed a complaint to get their money back.
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