A Canadian provincial politician has become the latest example of an unedited AI-generated passage slipping into a formal public setting, after video surfaced showing him reading a chatbot's own instructional text aloud during a speech to his province's legislature.

A mid-speech digression that went unnoticed

Bill Oliver, a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick who represents the Kings Centre district, was addressing a matter involving the Office of the New Brunswick Advocate during a floor speech last month. Partway through his remarks, Oliver appeared to read directly from what looked like an AI chatbot's formatting note rather than his own prepared remarks. "Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech," Oliver said, a line widely recognized as the kind of meta-instruction large language models often include when presenting a rewritten passage back to a user, rather than content meant to be spoken aloud as part of the finished text.

The moment came shortly after Oliver had delivered a substantive point about the risks associated with creating new government advocacy offices, noting that citizens often develop expectations that exceed the powers actually granted to those offices. That portion of his remarks read as a standard piece of legislative rhetoric. It was the section immediately following it — the apparent AI formatting note — that drew attention once footage began circulating widely online.

From unnoticed gaffe to viral clip

Although the speech was delivered........

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