Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

Canadian politician reads AI chatbot prompt aloud in legislature

New Brunswick MLA Bill Oliver accidentally recited an AI-generated editing prompt during a speech.

Canadian politician mindlessly reads AI-generated speech, prompt and all

Bill Oliver, a Progressive Conservative Party legislator in New Brunswick, Canada, delivered a rousing speech last week. "One of the dangers associated with creating advocacy offices is that citizens often develop expectations that exceed the powers actually granted to those offices. — Read the rest The post Canadian politician mindlessly reads AI-generated speech, prompt and all appeared first on Boing Boing.

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

Anyone who has used the Internet in recent years is probably used to encountering telltale signs of LLM prompting that lazy users sometimes forget to remove from their AI-generated pabulum. But a Canadian legislator took that idea to an embarrassing new level this week, reading an apparent LLM prompt instruction into the record during a floor speech. Bill Oliver, a Progressive Conservative Party member of the legislative assembly of New Brunswic…

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