AI chatbots and politicians who aren’t even pretending to try anymore are a match made in heaven.
Exhibit A: Canadian lawmaker Bill Oliver, who made a strange, cyborgian digression in a speech addressing the New Brunswick legislature last month.
“Public confidence in the office of an advocate matters,” Oliver intoned, before offering a bizarre non sequitur.
“Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points,” he added.
Oliver, in a distinctly 2026 twist, had accidentally read a prompt from an AI chatbot. Credit where credit’s due: he did it without blinking an eye, betraying either some serious stage composure or that he didn’t even notice the error, half-asleep as he sounded while mumbling through the machine-amalgamated pablum.
In any case, members of the New Brunswick subreddit, understandably, weren’t impressed after people began noticing the error this week.
“If there are no consequences for this, then we hold our high schoolers to a higher standard than our elected officials,” one commenter fumed.
“If he was a lawyer, he’d be sanctioned,” another wrote. “Why should it be any different for an elected representative?”
Others lamented the “depressing” state of affairs Oliver’s lazy AI slip-up evinced, using words like “grim” and “idiocracy.” There were multiple calls for him to resign.
The commenter saying Oliver would be sanctioned for making this mistake as a lawyer is onto something. Numerous attorneys have landed themselves in hot water after leaving in AI-generated text in court documents, including case law and quotes that an AI model fabricated.
Some were given a strong and humiliating talking-to from the judge, but others received more severe punishments. Last month, two lawyers were sanctioned by a US appeals court for filing documents riddled with AI hallucinations. That same week, four lawyers from both sides of a Mississippi lawsuit were punished for a similar error, with all four slapped with fines and two barred from appearing at the US district court again for the next two years.
It’s as damning an indictment of AI as it is for lousy politicians. What AI produces isn’t something that moves or inspires. The people using it don’t care about their audience. They know AI is good enough to sound passable, to hit all the right keywords so they sound like they know what they’re talking about. What they don’t realize is that effort does count for something — and outsourcing your brainpower to a tool that coldly mimics human speech conveys the opposite of caring.
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