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Did you read about the Canadian politician who was making a speech and simply thoughtlessly read out some of the LLM boilerplate prefacing the text some chatbot had written for him?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/bill-oliver-ai-...

Are we going to end up a bunch of meatbag puppets of the machines? Makes me wonder.

The problem with politics is it’s not a meritocracy.

You find abdicating your speech to an AI to be disqualifying, but to people who’ve already abdicated everything they do to AI, it’s folksy and relatable.