Byline or bot? AI-generated ‘journalists’ start to appear in Canada - Toronto Star
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People wait for speakers on the main stage at All-In 2026, an artificial intelligence (AI) conference in Montreal, on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
OTTAWA - Quebec correspondent “Geneviève Tremblay” — who has been reporting on multiple news stories a day lately — seemed to be experiencing a glitch. She wasn’t the only one. All of We News’ reporters and editors seemed to be malfunctioning on Friday, sending out error messages whenever The Canadian Press tried to ask them questions via chat.
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OTTAWA – Quebec correspondent “Geneviève Tremblay” — who has been reporting on multiple news stories a day lately — seemed to be experiencing a glitch. She wasn’t the only one. All of We News’ reporters and editors seemed to be malfunctioning on Friday, sending out error messages whenever The Canadian Press tried to ask them questions via chat. That can happen when your “journalists” are — like the virtual staffers at We News — just fake personas generated by artificial intelligence. AI has infiltrated news media in Canada and around the world. In early September, Nunatsiaq News published a story about an AI persona posing as an Inuk journalist in Nunavut — one of many personas used to repurpose work from legitimate news sources, including The Canadian Press, for We News. The site describes itself as a “round-the-clock news portal covering Canada and the world.” But while it remains online, it appears to have been delisted from Google’s search results. Story continues below advertisement
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