{"id":649187,"date":"2026-05-05T11:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/649187\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:08:11","slug":"government-cannot-continue-to-use-ai-on-social-media-platforms-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/649187\/","title":{"rendered":"Government \u2018Cannot Continue\u2019 to Use AI on Social Media Platforms: Premier"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An AI-altered image of a woman with six digits has generated another debate over the use of Artificial Intelligence to create or alter images for government use.<\/p>\n

The image was used to promote government\u2019s extension of the RSV vaccine to all seniors.<\/p>\n

Minister Lloyd Parrott admits the image was \u201ca mistake,\u201d and Premier Tony Wakeham says government \u201ccannot continue\u201d to use AI on its platforms.<\/p>\n

The image has since been deleted from government social media accounts.<\/p>\n

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Premier Tony Wakeham (VOCM News)<\/p>\n

The controversy comes after the tourism minister took political heat for promoting Tourism Week with an AI altered image of The Rooms.<\/p>\n

Premier Wakeham says government is now reviewing its policies for the use of AI on its platforms and by cabinet ministers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had a stock photo that they used and somehow or other when they put it on and used AI, it created an additional finger. But that\u2019s not the point. The point is they shouldn\u2019t be using it,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got to focus in on getting our messages out and unfortunately when you make mistakes like that or things like that happen, then that becomes the story and we lose sight of the fact we\u2019re trying to talk about vaccinations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An AI-altered image of a woman with six digits has generated another debate over the use of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-649187","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\/649187","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=649187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}