Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

加拿大议员在议会发言中误读大语言模型（LLM）提示词

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 from their AI-generated pabulum. 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. 近年来，任何使用过互联网的人可能都习惯了遇到大语言模型（LLM）提示词的明显痕迹——那些懒惰的用户有时会忘记从他们生成的 AI 内容中删掉这些提示词。但本周，一位加拿大议员将这种尴尬提升到了一个新的高度：他在议会发言时，竟然将一段疑似 LLM 的提示指令读了出来，并被记录在案。

Bill Oliver, a Progressive Conservative Party member of the legislative assembly of New Brunswick, noted in a speech last month that “One of the dangers associated with creating advocacy offices is that citizens often develop expectations that exceed the powers actually granted to those offices.” He then went on to say out loud that “here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points,” a line with all the hallmarks of an LLM presenting an alternative style option in response to a prompt. 新不伦瑞克省立法议会进步保守党成员比尔·奥利弗（Bill Oliver）在上个月的一次演讲中提到：“设立倡导办公室带来的危险之一，是公民往往会产生超出这些办公室实际被授予权力的期望。”随后，他竟然大声读出了：“这是一个更自然、更流畅的版本，读起来像是一篇立法演讲，而不是一系列简短的要点。”这句话完全具备了 LLM 在响应提示时提供替代风格选项的典型特征。

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. In Canada, the snafu is now getting mainstream attention from the likes of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and The Toronto Star, the latter of which called it a sign of “a growing divide in our society: between the elites, who are only too happy to delegate their duties to the Borg; and the masses, who find this objectionable.” 这次奇怪的朗读在当时几乎没有引起注意，但本周早些时候，这段发言的视频开始在 Reddit 和 Threads 等社交媒体网络上传播。在加拿大，这一失误目前已引起加拿大广播公司（CBC）和《多伦多星报》等主流媒体的关注。《多伦多星报》称这是“我们社会日益扩大的鸿沟”的标志：一边是乐于将职责委托给“博格人”（Borg，指代 AI）的精英阶层，另一边则是对此感到反感的普通大众。

Oliver is far from the first politician to blindly read a speech obviously prepared by someone else. He surely isn’t the first politician to rely on an LLM to aid in speech writing, either. But reading an obviously AI-generated non-sequitur aloud in such a public setting—apparently without realizing what was happening in real time—represents a brave new frontier in the annals of embarrassing revelations of AI use. 奥利弗绝不是第一个盲目宣读由他人准备的演讲稿的政客。他当然也不是第一个依赖 LLM 辅助撰写演讲稿的政客。但在如此公开的场合大声读出一段明显由 AI 生成的、逻辑不连贯的提示词——而且显然在当时并没有意识到发生了什么——这在 AI 使用引发的尴尬事件史上，开辟了一个令人咋舌的新领域。

With his speech, Oliver joins a growing trend of professionals whose AI use is revealed in mortifying ways. Lawyers, authors, journalists, and academics have all faced problems when their LLM use has come to light in the recent past, usually when someone noticed obviously hallucinated errors in ostensibly human-written work. No wonder a Duke University study last year found that workers tend to hide their AI use, as colleagues see their work as “lazy” or “replaceable” for using LLMs. 随着这次演讲，奥利弗加入了一个日益增长的群体，这些专业人士因 AI 使用方式被曝光而陷入尴尬。律师、作家、记者和学者在最近都曾因使用 LLM 而面临问题，通常是因为有人在看似由人类撰写的作品中发现了明显的“幻觉”错误。难怪杜克大学去年的一项研究发现，员工倾向于隐藏他们对 AI 的使用，因为同事们会认为使用 LLM 的人是在“偷懒”或“可被替代”。