Michèle Champagne
@michhham.bsky.social
Graphic artist in Montreal. Studies mandatory positivity and its effects on freedom of expression, architecture media, and “smart” cities. Invited to McGill, UQAM, and Harvard. — michelechampagne.com
In a way it’s about “fake AI history”. In parallel, it’s about Canada’s comms firms who offer the same kinds of services that create “AI” videos and personas. Those firms employ former Canadian ministers and retired news anchors from public broadcasters, the same people wearing poppy pins today.
How fake AI history is threatening Remembrance Day — with endless YouTube videos glamorizing Nazis
A search for any historical topic is sure to be met with a torrent of fake AI-generated garbage — at real cost to our history.
www.thestar.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
In a way it’s about “fake AI history”. In parallel, it’s about Canada’s comms firms who offer the same kinds of services that create “AI” videos and personas. Those firms employ former Canadian ministers and retired news anchors from public broadcasters, the same people wearing poppy pins today.
Every Remembrance Day, I think of Truus Oversteegen, Freddie Oversteegen, and Hannie Schaft.
The teenage Dutch girls who seduced and killed Nazis - BBC REEL
YouTube video by BBC Global
m.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Every Remembrance Day, I think of Truus Oversteegen, Freddie Oversteegen, and Hannie Schaft.
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Back at hotel Bonaventure. Total snow globe.
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Back at hotel Bonaventure. Total snow globe.
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“My day in Montreal’s underground city” a hypothetical film by Denys Arcand, 1992
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“My day in Montreal’s underground city” a hypothetical film by Denys Arcand, 1992
Those “months of additional work” are called “workslop” – the work needed to identify and correct “AI”-generated errors, abuses, and the loss of trust that ensues. The term was popularised in a recent Harvard Business Review article.
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Those “months of additional work” are called “workslop” – the work needed to identify and correct “AI”-generated errors, abuses, and the loss of trust that ensues. The term was popularised in a recent Harvard Business Review article.
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![The Robodebt scheme was an unlawful[1][2] method of automated debt assessment and recovery implemented in Australia under the Liberal-National Coalition governments of Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, and Scott Morrison, and employed by the Australian government agency Services Australia as part of its Centrelink payment compliance program.[3][4][5] Put in place in July 2016 and announced to the public in December of the same year,[6][7] the scheme aimed to replace the formerly manual system of calculating overpayments and issuing debt notices to welfare recipients with an automated data-matching system that compared Centrelink records with averaged income data from the Australian Taxation Office.[5][6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtupbv3srpd4dkxagkovpab7/bafkreic7hvetcy2cexqsl35zcoqwuqxtq547xcvyz2pwgafusbto6m33t4@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Excited to see AI's results in the Canadian government!
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Excited to see AI's results in the Canadian government!
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The #UofT community will gather on Nov. 11 to observe Remembrance Day, which this year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-mark-remembrance-day-across-its-three-campuses-nov-11
U of T to mark Remembrance Day across its three campuses on Nov. 11
The University of Toronto community will gather on Nov. 11 to observe Remembrance Day, which this year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. All three campuses have planned ev...
www.utoronto.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The #UofT community will gather on Nov. 11 to observe Remembrance Day, which this year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-mark-remembrance-day-across-its-three-campuses-nov-11
It’s snowing at Hotel Bonaventure.
Swam later in the pool as it sleeted here in the dark. So much steam whipping off water like fog. Kids throwing snow balls into pool. Amazing. Hydro! A hellofadrug.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
It’s snowing at Hotel Bonaventure.
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Brilliant thread by Michèle
In Toronto last spring, there was the curious case of “Protect Bathurst”: An anti-bus lane business owner seems to have used angry “AI”-gen personas and mobile video campaigns to fake “resident concerns”.
It was @shawnmicallef.bsky.social who found the videos questionable.
It was @shawnmicallef.bsky.social who found the videos questionable.
I regret to inform you the NIMBYs have discovered AI. Shut it all down
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Brilliant thread by Michèle
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Space ship city
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Space ship city
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“When a man is tired of Montreal brutalism, he is tired of life; for there is in Montreal, all the brutalism that life can afford."
— Samuel Johnson, 1777
— Samuel Johnson, 1777
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“When a man is tired of Montreal brutalism, he is tired of life; for there is in Montreal, all the brutalism that life can afford."
— Samuel Johnson, 1777
— Samuel Johnson, 1777
In Toronto last spring, there was the curious case of “Protect Bathurst”: An anti-bus lane business owner seems to have used angry “AI”-gen personas and mobile video campaigns to fake “resident concerns”.
It was @shawnmicallef.bsky.social who found the videos questionable.
It was @shawnmicallef.bsky.social who found the videos questionable.
I regret to inform you the NIMBYs have discovered AI. Shut it all down
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn
Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit government’s housebuilding plans
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In Toronto last spring, there was the curious case of “Protect Bathurst”: An anti-bus lane business owner seems to have used angry “AI”-gen personas and mobile video campaigns to fake “resident concerns”.
It was @shawnmicallef.bsky.social who found the videos questionable.
It was @shawnmicallef.bsky.social who found the videos questionable.
Meta has a history of “journalism capture” in Canada. It wants to shape public opinion and policy to its benefit with: Sponsored talks at magazines, like The Walrus; Fellowships with news partners, like The Canadian Press; Paid content in partisan news sites, like The Hub.
– cc @vassb.bsky.social
– cc @vassb.bsky.social
omg.
Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.
Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Meta has a history of “journalism capture” in Canada. It wants to shape public opinion and policy to its benefit with: Sponsored talks at magazines, like The Walrus; Fellowships with news partners, like The Canadian Press; Paid content in partisan news sites, like The Hub.
– cc @vassb.bsky.social
– cc @vassb.bsky.social
Plan of winter garden for Place Bonaventure, 1964-69, by Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise. Digitisation of the plan courtesy of the @ccaconversations.bsky.social.
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Plan of winter garden for Place Bonaventure, 1964-69, by Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise. Digitisation of the plan courtesy of the @ccaconversations.bsky.social.
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It’s true ducks in the Bonaventure pond 10 storys up
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
It’s true ducks in the Bonaventure pond 10 storys up
Le ministre Steven Guilbeault se défend.
Le filet social élargi aux artistes toujours dans la mire de Steven Guilbeault
Le ministre s’est notamment défendu vendredi d’avoir sous-financé le Conseil des arts du Canada.
www.ledevoir.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Le ministre Steven Guilbeault se défend.
Une protestation bien pensée.
Des œuvres d’art public recouvertes en guise de protestation contre le budget fédéral
Un groupe d’artistes est à l’origine de cette «grève de l’art» à Ottawa, Montréal, Saguenay et Alma.
www.ledevoir.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Une protestation bien pensée.
Hotel Bonaventure in Montreal is the best.
My favourite hotel on earth (at least in Montreal). It is really a brutalist low rise motor hotel high a top of a concrete plinth. It remains gorgeous & perfect 60 years later. Heaven.
November 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Hotel Bonaventure in Montreal is the best.
Remember this term: “a permission structure to doubt”.
This is why this is a problem for democracy. See my full piece on this here www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Remember this term: “a permission structure to doubt”.
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Here's some more AI making up a quote from me. It's gonna be a nightmare, so let's pray the bubble pops soon and big.
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Here's some more AI making up a quote from me. It's gonna be a nightmare, so let's pray the bubble pops soon and big.
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Never read him. Never wrote about him. "Murakami, conversely, has faced accusations of emotional detachment and circular storytelling. Yet, writer Rebecca Solnit defends his approach...." Did AI write this? pakobserver.net/lawrence-and...
Lawrence and Haruki Embodiment and reflection - Pakistan Observer
IN the vast landscape of world literature, a few writers have explored the depths of human experience as vividly as D.H. Lawrence and Haruki
pakobserver.net
November 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Never read him. Never wrote about him. "Murakami, conversely, has faced accusations of emotional detachment and circular storytelling. Yet, writer Rebecca Solnit defends his approach...." Did AI write this? pakobserver.net/lawrence-and...
Pluribus — Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Some users are losing touch with reality during marathon sessions with ChatGPT and other bots.
The Chatbot Delusions: Is AI Contributing to a Novel Mental Health Crisis?
Some users are losing touch with reality during marathon sessions with ChatGPT and other bots.
bloom.bg
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Some users are losing touch with reality during marathon sessions with ChatGPT and other bots.
The point is the economics of “AI”—in its current form—, which concentrates investment, wealth, credibility, and power. It promises productivity and focuses on automation, which erode labour rights, increase inequality, and undermine information spheres that nurture things like truth and falsity.
While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response.
It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?
It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The point is the economics of “AI”—in its current form—, which concentrates investment, wealth, credibility, and power. It promises productivity and focuses on automation, which erode labour rights, increase inequality, and undermine information spheres that nurture things like truth and falsity.