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personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

There's ton of ways to utilize AI when it comes to compiling information and assisting with writing that are not "slop" or confabulation. It's a pretty common tactic to use AI to aggregate, sort and summarize notes which is a perfectly valid technique.

Nobody is stopping you, but the reflexive anti-AI sentiment is really going to seem foolish in the near future. Everyone should rightly be skeptical and cautious, but AI tools are so obviously useful and powerful when used responsibly, you'd be crazy to just never ever go near them.