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 malfunction ...
Byline or bot? AI-generated ‘journalists’ start to appear in Canada
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