Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech
Credit: Getty Images Live shot of an LLM chastising a legislator for reading out what should have been the unstated part of its response. But a Canadian legislator took that idea to an embarrassing new level this week, reading an apparent LLM prompt instruction into the record during a floor speech. The odd reading went more or less unnoticed at the time, but video of the remarks started spreading around social media networks like Reddit and Threads earlier this week.
- ▪Credit: Getty Images Live shot of an LLM chastising a legislator for reading out what should have been the unstated part of its response.
- ▪But a Canadian legislator took that idea to an embarrassing new level this week, reading an apparent LLM prompt instruction into the record during a floor speech.
- ▪The odd reading went more or less unnoticed at the time, but video of the remarks started spreading around social media networks like Reddit and Threads earlier this week.
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Whoops! Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speechvar abtest_2164717 = new ABTest(2164717, 'click'); “Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section…” Kyle Orland – Jul 24, 2026 5:25 pm | 6 Live shot of an LLM chastising a legislator for reading out what should have been the unstated part of its response. Credit: Getty Images Live shot of an LLM chastising a legislator for reading out what should have been the unstated part of its response. Credit: Getty Images Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Anyone who has used the Internet in recent years is probably used to encountering telltale signs of LLM prompting that lazy users sometimes forget to remove…
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