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AI ‘journalists’ start to appear in Canada

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Artificial intelligence-generated reporters are appearing in Canadian media, including virtual staff at We News who sent error messages when The Canadian Press tried to question them. In early September, Nunatsiaq News reported on an AI persona posing as an Inuk journalist in Nunavut; the excerpt says such personas have been used to repurpose other people’s work.