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

Boing Boing reports that Bill Oliver, a Progressive Conservative legislator in New Brunswick, delivered a speech that was generated by AI. The problem: he read not just the speech, but also the system prompt embedded in the file — hidden instructions that were never meant to be spoken aloud. It's an awkward illustration of a growing risk as artificial intelligence becomes more common in politics: the people deploying these tools still need to actually read what they're about to deliver.

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