The Financial Post reports in its Wednesday edition that Canada has seen a boom in political books created with generative artificial intelligence, adding to concerns about how new technologies are affecting the information voters receive during the federal election campaign. A Bloomberg dispatch to the Post reports that Liberal Leader Mark Carney was the subject of at least 16 books published in March and listed on Amazon.com, according to a review of the site on April 16. Five of those were published on a single day.
In total, approximately 30 titles were published about Mr. Carney this year and made available on Amazon -- but most were taken down from the site after inquiries from Bloomberg. Among the titles that Amazon removed: Carney's Code: Climate Capitalism, Digital Currencies, and the Technocratic Takeover of the Global Economy -- Inside Mark Carney's Blueprint for the Post-democratic World. Facebook and X have hosted scam advertisements that are made to look like political news stories. A China-backed network used the social media app Wechat to push stories about Mr. Carney in a bid to influence the electorate, according to the Privy Council Office, citing the government's task force on election threats.
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