Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

Ars Technica · 2 months ago · 10 ● 2 sources

Bill Oliver, a Canadian legislator in New Brunswick, read aloud an apparent LLM instruction prompt during a floor speech, accidentally including the AI system's suggested revision text instead of removing it beforehand. The incident involved Oliver reading that a rewritten passage would be "a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points"—language that appears to be a direct output from an AI model. The embarrassing moment, initially unnoticed, gained widespread attention after videos circulated on social media, prompting mainstream Canadian media coverage and raising questions about the use of AI tools in government work.