🇨🇦 Tourism Minister Uses AI to Erase WWI Memorial, Claims She Was In a Rush

Andrea Barbour, Newfoundland's arts and tourism minister, couldn't be bothered to post a real photo for National Tourism Week, so she fed ChatGPT her face and invented a fake building. The AI wiped out The Rooms' iconic caribou sculpture—a memorial to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel—and replaced it with a made-up logo. When called out in the House of Assembly, she denied it twice before finally admitting she doesn't really know a lot about AI. An artist herself, apparently.

This is what passes for ministerial competence now: outsourcing memory to algorithms that have no idea what matters. The woman responsible for promoting the province's heritage just digitally erased a century-old war memorial because she was too rushed to use a real photograph. Not incompetence—contempt wrapped in laziness.

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