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Byline or bot? AI-generated ‘journalists’ starting to appear in Canada
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We News uses AI-generated personas as reporters and editors, including a Quebec correspondent named “Geneviève Tremblay.” The virtual staffers returned error messages when The Canadian Press tried to question them via chat. In early September, Nunatsiaq News also reported an AI persona posing as an Inuk journalist in Nunavut.