{"id":620897,"date":"2026-04-22T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620897\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:12:09","slug":"tourism-minister-regrets-using-ai-in-facebook-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620897\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Minister Regrets Using AI in Facebook Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Minister Andrea Barbour posted the image on the left on January 18, and the image on the right was posted on April 20th with alterations made to the Rooms and its front entrance (Facebook)<\/p>\n

The minister of tourism says she regrets posting a manipulated image of The Rooms on her Facebook page.<\/p>\n

Minister Andrea Barbour posted an image of herself standing outside The Rooms to mark Tourism Week.<\/p>\n

The image includes an elaborate \u2013 and completely fictitious \u2013 logo on the front of the altered building.<\/p>\n

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From Andrea\u2019s Barbour\u2019s post (Facebook)<\/p>\n

Barbour was asked about the alteration during Question Period by tourism critic Bettina Ford.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe photo was either AI generated, or doctored,\u201d says Ford. \u201cThe impressive artwork of the caribou, representing the Royal Newfoundland Regiment at the main entrance, was removed with an unknown logo replacing it. Why is the minister in her Facebook post redesigning the entrance to such an iconic tourism landmark?\u201d Ford asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeaker, I\u2019m not sure what she\u2019s talking about, so I\u2019ll have to go back and look at the picture and get back to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barbour later admitted to using ChatGPT to create the image for Tourism Week and regrets that the background was altered in doing so.<\/p>\n

She has since cropped the AI altered photo from her original post.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minister Andrea Barbour posted the image on the left on January 18, and the image on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-620897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}