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Byline or bot? AI-generated ‘journalists’ starting to appear in Canada

650 CKOM · October 4, 2026

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We News uses AI-generated personas as reporters and editors, including a Quebec correspondent called Geneviève Tremblay. The virtual staffers sent error messages when The Canadian Press tried to question them via chat on Friday. Earlier in September, Nunatsiaq News reported on an AI persona posing as an Inuk journalist in Nunavut.

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650 CKOM. (October 4, 2026). Byline or bot? AI-generated ‘journalists’ starting to appear in Canada. https://www.ckom.com/2026/10/04/byline-or-bot-ai-generated-journalists-starting-to-appear-in-canada/

AI Canada Pulse. (October 6, 2026). Byline or bot? AI-generated ‘journalists’ starting to appear in Canada [AI-generated summary]. Retrieved October 10, 2026, from https://www.aicanadapulse.ca/stories/byline-or-bot-ai-generated-journalists-starting-to-appear-748ba88afbe0f0d3

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