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Byline or bot? AI-generated 'journalists' start to appear in Canada
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Canadian news outlets are confronting websites that use AI-generated journalist personas to republish reporting from established media. The Canadian Press found that We News used such personas, including Quebec correspondent “Geneviève Tremblay”; an analysis of just over 200 of her articles identified them as AI-generated. The federal AI minister’s office said Canadians should not be deceived by content that impersonates journalists or hides how it was made.