A New Brunswick MLA Read the LLM Prompt Aloud With the Speech It Generated
New Brunswick MLA Bill Oliver delivered a floor speech in the provincial legislature that included the meta-instruction to the language model still sitting in the copy, reading the prompt out along with the output. The clip became the single largest AI story on Reddit for the day — 2,831 upvotes and 181 comments on r/ChatGPT, plus a parallel r/singularity thread — outdrawing every model release on those subreddits. The failure was not using the tool; it was the missing proofread at the last step, the same pattern behind published articles carrying 'as an AI language model' preambles. Low importance as news, but a useful marker of where the public embarrassment threshold now sits: three years after a US Congressman deliberately read a ChatGPT-written floor speech as a demonstration, the story is no longer the AI, it is the sloppiness.
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