ChatGPT’s New Image Generator Is So Good, Your Boss Thinks You Actually Had a Meeting

By Not Enough Bread Investigations Team (we faked the expenses to write this)

Table of Contents

1. Welcome to the Fake-conomy
2. Expense Report Theatre: Now With AI
3. The New Currency: Believability
4. UK Accounting Software Is Panicking—and It’s Glorious
5. Trust No JPEG
6. In Conclusion: Reality is Optional

In a move that strikes fear into the hearts of finance teams, HR departments, exes, and anyone who ever said “drinks are on me,” ChatGPT has updated its image generator—and it’s now really good at faking receipts.

Like, “convince-your-manager-you-spent-£78-on-a-stapler-in-Luton” good.

The new ChatGPT powered tool can now generate photorealistic images of almost anything you describe. Naturally, the first thing the internet did was recreate a 1998 Pizza Hut bill for $4.26 with “2 Personal Pan Pizzas” and a mysterious line item simply labelled “Vibes.”

But let’s be honest: no one is using this for art.

We’re using it to claw back our dignity one forged Pret sandwich at a time.

Expense Report Theatre: Now With AI

Want to prove you attended a business brunch that was actually just you, in bed, crying into Uber Eats? Done.

Need a receipt for an Uber you didn’t take because you “got a lift from Dan,” but Dan doesn’t exist? Easy.

Trying to convince your accountant you bought a MacBook for work but really just wanted the shiny one with the pink keyboard cover? You’re covered… In fake VAT.

We reached out to ChatGPT for comment. It replied with a 2,000-word explainer on the ethics of synthetic media, a warning about misinformation, and then helpfully generated a receipt from “AI Bistro” with the line item:

• “1 x Existential Dread Sandwich – £0.00 (on the house)”

The New Currency: Believability

Experts (who we may or may not have invented using the same AI) warn that this could lead to a new era of “receipts-based disinformation.”

But honestly, it’s already here.

Twitter/X has been full of screenshots of fake Uber receipts for “Pick-up from Therapy, Drop-off at Unchecked Childhood Trauma.”

One user reportedly expensed a fake trip to a conference called “The Future of Leveraging Blockchain Synergies,” which no one questioned because the title sounded just boring enough to be real.

UK Accounting Software Is Panicking—and It’s Glorious

With fake receipts multiplying like unsupervised interns at a WeWork, the UK’s most trusted accounting and expense platforms have entered full Black Mirror mode.

The team at Not Enough Bread has strategized to streamline our workflow to get solutions to market faster than ever before—and these are the ideas we came up with… at a four-star hotel bonding retreat. (We have the receipts. Literally. At least 37 of them.)

Note: We have no insider knowledge of any plans to make anything to help prevent this from happening. If you like one of our suggestion, maybe tell them on LinkedIn or on your next client management call. THEY’LL THANK YOU LATER!

Xero

• JAX, their AI assistant faxes your receipt to a secret panel of retired dinner ladies who vote on its trustworthiness.
• Cross-checks your expenses with your calendar, Apple Health steps, and number of Deliveroo orders that week. If they don’t align, JAX just mutters “Hmmm” and shuts down.

Sage

• Sage Copilot AI now flags any receipt containing both “Filet Mignon” and “Wetherspoons.”
• Automatically reverse-engineers the receipt’s printer model, ink density, and aroma to detect fakes. If it smells like an inkjet from Curry’s, it’s toast.

FreeAgent

• New “Weather Matching” tool scans your location at the time of the expense. Claimed a seaside strategy day in Blackpool during a red weather warning? Explain yourself.
• Expense descriptions with the words “networking,” “client bonding,” or “team vibes” are now translated to “probably drinking… alone”

DEXT

• Uses a “Suspicion Score” based on formatting, merchant name, and whether the receipt contains the phrase “for business reasons.”
• Once a week, Alan Sugar’s actual voice is piped in through your laptop speakers to yell “You’re having a laugh!” at your most creative upload.

Expensify

• New “Vibe Check” AI analyses your tone while uploading. If you whisper “please work” or sigh loudly, it alerts your finance team.
• Auto-rejects any receipt timestamped between 11:57pm and 3:00am—because nothing good happens financially during that window.

Apron

• Integrates with Deliveroo and Instagram to confirm whether your “Executive Boardroom Brunch” was actually just a solo meal deal and a Kinder Bueno.
• Rolling out “Smell Check Pro™” to detect if the uploaded food receipt is for something that smells like sadness and garlic. If yes: flagged.

Trust No JPEG

The implications are vast. Already, several freelancers are reportedly using AI-generated receipts to justify a new trend: “reverse expenses,” where the client pays you more because you made them feel bad for how hard you work.

We at Not Enough Bread tried this technique by generating a receipt for “2 weeks of therapy + oat milk” and sending it to our editor. We were reimbursed in exposure and laughter.

Jokes aside: Trust in receipts without proof of purchase is going to go through the floor. This is a great opportunity for tech in this sector to come up with novel ways to ensure that image generation tools are not abused to defraud businesses.

This could include wider adoption of expense payment cards. Open banking to match purchases on personal cards (Though there are privacy concerns). Geolocation of receipt uploads, meta data scanning and much more. Likely more than one will need to be used and some likely not mentioned here.

If you want to read more and see more examples, just check LinkedIn, Gen Z on TikTok or read this Tech Crunch article.