True Patriot Love - Can You Trust Breaking News in the Age of AI？

00:00:00.000 all right this one happened in 1998 bob hope probably one of the funniest false death

00:00:11.560 announcements in the history of celebrity life what are you talking about okay the associated

00:00:15.760 press accidentally posted a prepared obituary for bob hope in 1998 the mistake traveled so far

00:00:23.260 that congressman bob stump announced hope's death on the floor of the u.s house of representatives

00:00:29.760 live on c-span uh hope's daughter then explained that her 95 year old father was very much alive

00:00:36.080 and at home eating breakfast he lived another five years the thing okay the thing about hope is

00:00:41.600 for the majority of his career starting in world war ii then korea then vietnam he would do these

00:00:48.400 uso tours so he was too old to serve so he would bring a starlet a musician he would do comedy

00:00:56.240 and he would go to these crazy outposts to celebrate the troops and entertain the troops

00:01:02.400 so i'm sure once they thought oh my god we gotta talk about this in congress he's an american hero

00:01:07.920 he's actually a hero and so it made it to the floor and of course he was just enjoying eggs

00:01:12.480 benedict what happens when the trusted voice on the radio tells you something catastrophic just

00:01:16.960 happened and it's completely wrong how did this happen and why does it happen still in an era

00:01:23.360 that we live in with so much data to to rely on and access to it you want a couple more yeah okay

00:01:31.040 please hit me by the way i'm mike wixson that right there is jim lang and we are talking about

00:01:36.400 false announcements in the media which has become very very common and as you run after you run them

00:01:42.400 down i'll tell you why okay all right uh here you know and also in an era of ai you can be convinced

00:01:49.760 of false announcement pretty absolutely but back into uh 2008 bloomberg accidentally released

00:01:55.600 a seven page uh advanced 17 page advance obituary for jobs it was quickly retracted but not before

00:02:04.080 spreading around the world joe jobs uh subsequently had fun with the mistake displaying it yeah

00:02:12.000 no was he not sick with cancer at the time he hadn't even announced it uh you know and uh

00:02:17.600 uh he used the line reports of my death uh are greatly exaggerated thank you mark twain yeah

00:02:22.960 mark twain did that one uh and he used that at a uh he actually died in 2011 so he might have been

00:02:28.900 sick at the time there's also the morgan freeman one oh my god which was on twitter slash x and he

00:02:34.740 responded hey guys i'm at home eating chicken i'm good i'm eating chicken that was like 12 years ago

00:02:39.720 you imagine that feeling so i'll tell you one jim i was working at a radio station 1280 the can

00:02:46.500 c-k-a-n yeah i worked at a radio station called the can yeah i remember it it was a news station

00:02:52.020 yes and part of my job was uh mid days i had to read the obituaries now okay for people listening

00:02:58.900 and watching in small town radio in canada especially in the 60s 70s 80s and 90s doing

00:03:04.660 the daily obituary was a big deal that's when people found out that oh there's a visitation

00:03:09.540 for millie the seamstress down the road and they would get their news that way that's exactly right

00:03:14.660 well uh one day by the way uh that obituary a segment of my day in my radio show was quickly

00:03:22.900 followed by another segment called tradio which is another fascination in radio here in canada

00:03:30.580 where people could come on the radio and they could trade they would trade what they had i got

00:03:34.820 a lawnmower yeah it's a briggs and stratton three horsepower right i'm looking for a canoe yeah

00:03:40.100 like preferably wood but fiberglass is okay you know oddly the phone would ring yes so one day i

00:03:46.420 i uh i finished the obituaries and i get into tradeo and the phone uh you know the phone goes

00:03:51.780 and i'm excited in the small town take uh the can i don't know if it was called the can 12 80 ckan

00:03:58.820 you're on the radio and the guy goes i'm not dead i said pardon me he said i'm not dead before you

00:04:07.060 said on the show that i was dead i'm not i'm out of the hospital and i'm feeling much better and i

00:04:12.500 was horrified that i had announced this man's death i think it might have been a name in common

00:04:17.460 but yeah yeah he caught it and uh anyway i apologized to him and he said well that's all

00:04:22.920 right so i'm looking for a washer and dryer he got right into tradio right away time to start

00:04:28.380 trading i need something i'm alive let's trade uh some of the other ones from the past dick cheney

00:04:34.720 in 20 uh 2003 uh cnn accident accidentally exposed advanced obituary pages for several

00:04:43.280 living public figures including cheney oddly enough that years later he shot a guy he was

00:04:48.240 hunting with by accident and the guy he shot apologized to cheney boy you know that you

00:04:53.600 are in the triumvirate of evil when you get shot and you apologize to the guy shooting you remember

00:05:00.080 that story i do man oh i don't know who gave him a weapon in the first place you know poor pope john

00:05:06.400 paul ii three times guinness actually credits him as the person with the most premature come on

00:05:12.640 really yeah uh 1980 he was legitimately shot though they implied that that's right they implied

00:05:18.000 that he uh he died after his 19 or uh yeah 1981 assassination attempt uh and uh then in 2003 another

00:05:26.400 one surfaced and fox news prematurely reported his death in 2005 shortly before he he actually died

00:05:33.840 so uh you know fidel castro britney spears and justin timberlake apparently both died uh in

00:05:40.720 tandem uh and of course uh i don't know i'll be honest with you abe vegoda must be the king

00:05:48.240 of being dead while alive so for for people don't know abe vegoda was a guy named fish and barney

00:05:54.160 miller he was the best and he was tessio the godfather yeah and he even when he was in his

00:05:59.280 30s he looked like he was in his 50s kind of frumpy and stooped over he always looked old yeah yeah he

00:06:06.400 played the part well of all of the characters that he did and they were all old guys so okay people

00:06:11.680 mistakenly referred to the godfather actor uh as dead in 1982. years later another report called

00:06:19.520 him the late avagoda it became such a running cultural joke that websites were eventually

00:06:24.320 devoted to answering whether vagoda was alive or dead so here's why i know you're dying to know

00:06:32.400 unfortunately at 94 he died in 2016. it's this the smartphone and its social media when we were

00:06:40.480 coming up in the business we were taught more than anything be right before being first yeah

00:06:46.640 and we were held a high standard in the bigger the newsroom the bigger the outlet the more

00:06:51.920 important it was it was not just one it was two sources of verification maybe a family member

00:06:58.480 maybe a business manager an agent let's find out for sure a spokesperson for a politician

00:07:05.760 and then there was a tasteful obit now with the onset of social media and people becoming

00:07:11.040 influencers it's let's be first i may be wrong but i'm probably going to be right right and

00:07:17.200 everyone looks at tmz who seem to have the corner the market cornered on celebrity deaths they're

00:07:24.240 the go-to for celebrity deaths to the point that people in mainstream media will go as reported on

00:07:30.880 tmz right so and so has passed away yeah and that that stamp of credibility inaccurately

00:07:37.680 or accurately carries weight so off it goes someone hears a report i heard that so and so

00:07:45.780 has passed away and instead of reaching out to their agent business manager a production company

00:07:51.800 anyone just want to confirm they go with it because i want to be first absolutely this has

00:07:57.900 been happening since the beginning of social media you know the other thing that occurred

00:08:01.960 early in media uh especially in television around the news and then with the 24-hour news cycle

00:08:08.780 places like fox and cnn they started pre-producing obituaries bingo they created their own death pool

00:08:15.020 sadly and started creating what would be two-thirds to three-quarters of somebody's obituary

00:08:22.500 leaving room for the final details and things like that and so for people watching it would be on

00:08:28.080 the tape that they would run or the digital file so it's ready to go so they just it's a quick edit

00:08:34.640 and they turn it around and within minutes it's all pre-produced it's ready to go and so if that

00:08:39.780 shows up in some producers you know bailiwick and you know christoph be honest our producer

00:08:46.360 do you have any idea who abe vagoda is so if on for christophe i feel old if on his list

00:08:54.020 of things to edit today Abe Vigoda just happened to show up he pulls the file gets the data creates

00:09:00.200 the file it ends up in the news list if there's somebody else who doesn't know who Abe Vigoda is

00:09:05.260 and that he's well and alive which by the way I want to restate he is not I don't want to start

00:09:09.380 the rumor that poor Abe Vigoda is alive and well he is not uh but that is an easy insert in the

00:09:18.040 news that comes and goes pretty quickly and even if the newscaster knows who Abe Vigoda is well it's

00:09:23.240 too late jimmy it's on that teleprompter oh no you you have a producer in your ear uh we have

00:09:30.000 a report mike that abe vegoda's passed away we're going to it in 10 so you got 10 maybe 15 seconds

00:09:35.640 go to camera two i think he's alive in your head you're like i think he's alive i think he's no no

00:09:39.780 we gotta go with this okay abe vegoda this is sad everybody uh super celebrity abe vegoda

00:09:45.760 so you know here it comes the other thing is in this era and this has been reported two or three

00:09:53.140 times uh it is that somebody pushes publish instead of save yes on on a social media platform

00:10:01.300 or an instant platform out there or an alert now to me the most famous is a few years ago in 2018

00:10:10.340 they got the amber alert in hawaii that said incoming ballistic missile this is not a drill

00:10:19.380 it took more than 38 minutes to correct the mistake the employee sending the alert believed

00:10:23.860 the threat was real so for people to realize if a ballistic missile is shot from north korea or

00:10:30.180 china or russia it would be on the pacific coast in about 40 minutes it would be in hawaii

00:10:36.340 in half that time it's the middle pacific ocean people thought it was the end the

00:10:40.900 The sheer numbers of civilians that received this at the same time

00:10:47.960 was literally potentially catastrophic.

00:10:51.500 Right.

00:10:52.100 Another one, Radio Caroline in 2026,

00:10:54.540 a staff member discovers the radio station's pre-recorded

00:10:57.280 royal death announcements and plays them.

00:11:00.480 The king is alive.

00:11:02.200 The station apologizes 30 minutes later,

00:11:04.660 and Ofcom receives only two complaints.

00:11:07.360 Ofcom, by the way, is like CRTC,

00:11:09.880 or the uh what is it the states uh fcc the fcc they're finding us as we speak uh and uh so that

00:11:18.440 was a big one radio caroline you know a legitimized uh former pirate radio station yes uh on a ship

00:11:24.780 anchored off the coast of england yeah because it's technically international waters it was i

00:11:30.640 don't know if it is anymore it was for years yeah and it was honestly it was one of the the best

00:11:35.000 sources for news uh during uh really really trying times for the british the other one that's

00:11:40.840 terrifying and i think is somebody who lived in ontario oh especially southern ontario oh my good

00:11:46.260 god when pickering said an alert yes uh and and that was once again early days of getting these

00:11:55.360 amber alerts and the warnings this is 2020 six years ago we're just adapting to them

00:12:00.800 and uh it was terrifying uh everybody receives an emergency alert in ontario in the southern

00:12:07.900 area around and it was sent accidentally after an employee believed they were operating in a

00:12:12.340 training environment so they were live they thought it was internal yeah i've said the f

00:12:17.620 word live on the radio because of that before the pickering nuclear plant is the biggest

00:12:21.840 nuclear energy facility in the country and it is on 35 40 kilometers from downtown toronto

00:12:30.580 um so if something ever happened there you know this the fallout the the danger of it would be

00:12:36.720 catastrophic almost two hours later a retraction was sent almost two hours later we stood around

00:12:43.880 for two hours waiting for us to turn into uh homer simpson so you know the the other one i think that

00:12:52.400 really this begins with and it was totally unintentional it was meant to be entertaining

00:12:57.600 was war of the worlds and i think you know uh when when uh when that happened it kind of gave

00:13:05.280 humanity an indication jim that we are easily um our brains are easily infiltrated with information

00:13:14.560 that is given to us by a broadcast so in 1938 orson wells before he did all his huge movies

00:13:23.040 speak before he became an icon did a radio broadcast of the war of the worlds now at the time

00:13:29.680 in the mid late 1930s pre-tv people got everything from their local radio absolutely so you had your

00:13:37.760 news announcements then you had shows some of them were done live in studio drama comedy

00:13:44.080 information entertainment and he starts reading this war of the worlds broadcast

00:13:49.520 in 1938 and people were getting in their vehicles and running for the hills going to farmland

00:13:56.000 thinking this is it it's it's over yeah he created panic in the streets and okay so now

00:14:02.160 where are these false announcements why why are we talking about them well for a lot of reasons jim

00:14:09.200 over the last four or five weeks alone the number of false information uh releases that have had to

00:14:16.800 be deflated by various agencies various news outlets it is on the groundswell at the moment

00:14:26.880 in my opinion because of ai here's even more so tuesday night on his truth social donald trump

00:14:34.560 has a big post that we have a breakthrough with canadian trade negotiations on postponing

00:14:39.440 the 50 percent tariffs for three days and everyone runs with it but a little bit later mark carney

00:14:45.440 our prime minister says wait a second you know it's we're getting there but he kind of

00:14:51.680 kind of tapped the brakes a little bit on this so as soon as someone says something of consequence

00:14:57.440 instead of like what does mark carney say people ran with it now i'm i'm uh i'm pushing liam to do

00:15:04.480 an episode with me that leads into this but let me let me kind of we'll get on the back of this

00:15:09.840 if i'm okay please because now legitimized announcements that don't really mean anything

00:15:15.600 are getting attention i'll give you an example the churchill falls announcement that took place

00:15:21.280 in st john's just this week yes huge for the potential for the country the premier of uh

00:15:26.800 of newfoundland the premier of uh of quebec and of course our prime minister all their

00:15:31.600 macucci was out there our very own paul macucci was right there that was so i can't wait to talk

00:15:36.720 to him about that he sent me photos with the prime minister in the background and mark goes yo paulie

00:15:41.040 yeah i don't know that that happens you know i don't know if we're supposed to talk about that

00:15:45.200 but having said that uh that announcement was very interesting absolutely i watched it and i thought

00:15:51.360 okay here is a solution now i think about two years ago we had another memorandum of understanding

00:15:57.120 about this churchill falls i i guess that's gone now we have a a new agreement in place

00:16:02.720 and they get on to appear in saint john's and the premier of quebec has no idea about the numbers

00:16:09.040 that the newfoundland premier is talking about and the prime minister is calling it a new national

00:16:14.260 project this is a big deal but nobody seems to know anybody and the reason for it is they don't

00:16:20.080 have a deal they have a developing memorandum of understanding which has become a go-to phrase

00:16:28.140 in canadian politics in the last 12 months let's be honest so while we made errors in the past that

00:16:34.160 were grievous it seems like now we're making intentional emissions in announcements that are

00:16:39.740 grievous for example saying by the way this is not a binding agreement we just thought we'd come

00:16:43.540 out here to the pier together well look at the submarine deal we actually haven't finalized

00:16:50.240 the cost the payment and the number of subs they plan on buying 12 submarines the tkms yeah

00:16:58.000 two 12 cds and everything that goes with it but it's very possible they say you know we did the

00:17:05.000 numbers we're going to buy 10 we're going to buy eight or we're going to buy we don't know

00:17:08.560 the number yet until they actually sign the deal with the company and make the official real

00:17:13.620 announcement i also think it's an era where we don't care if we make a mistake i don't know if

00:17:18.600 if you've watched any of our shows when we make an error it'll either show up at some point in

00:17:25.260 another episode we'll talk about it uh i i had i've eaten uh crow a few times on things i've said

00:17:31.660 here but not very often out there do you hear anybody say our mistake you know it's always

00:17:38.820 okay so set aside in a part of the discussion or in some legal manner hidden away rarely do people

00:17:46.160 come out and say you know what i we we made an announcement that we were doing this let me be

00:17:51.280 clear now this is part of the de-evolution of media news information and society in general

00:17:58.160 people will post something about something happening in the neighborhood and they just

00:18:02.720 shrug their shoulders i guess i got it wrong instead of saying a mea culpa you'll see in

00:18:07.120 newspapers that tiny little print yeah um so on an online story right at the bottom you're reading

00:18:16.080 it and there's a tiny little correction legally they corrected it yeah but you have to go all

00:18:20.480 the way down to look for it because otherwise it's trying to it's like trying to find the

00:18:23.840 bad ingredient in a in a ho-ho on the package exactly so that is once upon a time for a major

00:18:30.640 news outlet to have a correction on the air in the news in the print that was like oh that's a big

00:18:36.000 deal that has sort of gone away it's it's for a lack of a better terms mike it's clicks did you

00:18:42.160 get eyes did you get views did you get likes was it reposted and then we can make the correction 0.87

00:18:48.640 after the fact legally and cover their ass but not worry because they're trying to be first and be 0.90

00:18:54.440 ahead of the game so they can keep making money that's what it all comes down to well you know 0.94

00:18:59.580 and then false announcements are happen in this form too jim let me formally announce on our show

00:19:05.200 today that i am removing myself from the race the candidates race for the uh mayoral position in on

00:19:13.500 in uh toronto oh okay i'm not running for the mayor of toronto i'm going to uh just take this

00:19:19.180 moment to announce that nobody knew that i was going to run for mayor anyway what a great way

00:19:24.300 to plug myself this guy was actually going to run from so announcements quite often are pr maneuvers

00:19:29.500 as well oh yeah you know no and it's and it's become generally accepted that there's going to

00:19:35.500 be announcement on politics music entertainment uh you tell me something where there isn't an

00:19:43.660 announcement a press release something formal uh going on a talk show making an announcement

00:19:49.500 going on a podcast doing their own thing on social media i'm announcing they'll do look

00:19:54.700 down the barrel of their camera of their phone and making an announcement about hey by the way

00:19:59.260 i'm going to be going on tour with christophe and mike it's the power trio and we're following

00:20:03.820 russia's new announcement by the way yeah new announcement yeah uh but that's become the big

00:20:08.540 thing uh jim quick a new announcement yes i'm back in the race for mayor of toronto well that's good

00:20:13.340 to know what's your platform new announcement jim due to no platform i'm removing myself from the

00:20:20.540 race for the mayor of toronto again now here's here's further to this conversation so i'm a big

00:20:26.940 zz top fan and last year i saw them um perform obviously uh but but jim aren't never mind so

00:20:37.180 i got to see frank beard their their original drummer and billy gibbons do their thing

00:20:42.700 now that they were i thought i had read that they were what i thought that they were

00:20:50.620 not with us anymore to be honest with you no it was only dusty hill at that point

00:20:54.460 they replaced the bass player but it was a great concert i loved it and today we have the

00:20:59.100 announcement yes frank beard the only member of the band without a beard has passed away at 77

00:21:04.620 after a short stay in hospice i don't know about that yeah i'm not sure jim yeah well

00:21:09.820 when the when billy gibbons the band the band's announcing it it's true but this is the problem

00:21:15.260 so we don't like we're like is this really true did he really die and the family's saying he's

00:21:19.900 dead his bandmate saying he's passed away but any minute we'll get a post from his granddaughter

00:21:25.180 saying i'm eating with him at denny's right now so by the way all respect to all the members of

00:21:32.140 zz top and uh our condolences to the family of mr beard uh but you're right like it's hard to that

00:21:40.540 what i like to refer we automatically don't believe it until we see four or five

00:21:44.540 so the first thing you do is you search on your social media so and so dead and looked at oh

00:21:51.580 there's 10 12 sources really credible people well i guess he's really passed away yeah and but what

00:21:58.780 a shame right when initially we took it it was such a rare occasion to hear that prince charles

00:22:05.020 had passed away or king charles had passed away although he must be in the running as well because

00:22:09.500 my whole life i've been hearing this guy's dying uh he's pushing 80 now yeah but i mean forever

00:22:14.380 there's been false announcements about the royal family's health and their death and that's true

00:22:18.860 that happened with the queen it's happened with king charles but it was a rare occasion where it

00:22:23.820 was so outrageous that we still remember what happened with the nuclear power plant with hawaii

00:22:30.220 we still remember what happened on radio caroline because they were you know prominent moments in

00:22:35.180 regular media but that big truth that these elements fall onto that are not truthful

00:22:42.460 that's how we recognize them there was a big truth generally speaking underneath that we

00:22:47.260 could rely on so now how do we filter that to that end lloyd robertson sadly passed away recently

00:22:54.380 one of the greats in the business absolutely you and i both had the privilege of meeting him and

00:22:58.540 spending time with him in the nolton nash lloyd robertson in canada um walter cronkite in the usa

00:23:07.580 standing in front of you reading a report telling you a story by god the public believed it when

00:23:14.860 you read a major column in the global mail the toronto star or the new york times or whatever it

00:23:20.860 was you as the public you took it in as the gospel truth and you believed it now is this fake news is

00:23:30.380 this real do i believe it do i not believe it that's our first reaction now and what a change

00:23:35.820 from not that long ago mike do you think society built this so that we didn't have to feel the

00:23:40.460 emotion that we have historically over the loss of big figures in our life and heroes and things

00:23:46.940 like that it's almost like we've created such a wash of misinformation and of course with uh with

00:23:54.220 ai well i mean ai is fooling the sharpest minds in the world mike i i saw an interview with james

00:24:01.180 dean that was fake and i was like how did they get this interview with him it was fake but no but

00:24:06.940 that's the thing ai uh so coming up we're gonna have an interview i did with a cyber security

00:24:14.060 specialist in canada i heard about this everybody here is chatting about it and he said from our

00:24:19.340 interview someone with ai can take his voice and use it to make a fake video or fake phone call

00:24:27.580 that you would not be able to tell the difference that's how good ai is becoming

00:24:32.060 so now news organizations and government organizations have been forced to hire their

00:24:38.540 own ai specialists and download their own ai software to detect if they're getting bamboozled

00:24:45.900 with ai do you think that this will help convince our audience that uh we're not ai we're real

00:24:51.260 yeah c is real would ai feel that i don't think so but that's this is a overarching bigger issue

00:24:59.580 mike i think you're right with artificial intelligence the ability to create a fake

00:25:05.100 announcement with mark carney uh something happening in europe something happening around

00:25:09.980 the world whether it's a news a concert and whatever it is it's going to be very difficult

00:25:15.580 to actually identify the fake from the real instance instantaneous production in multiple

00:25:21.260 languages instantaneous uh dissemination and distribution of that content equals mass

00:25:29.420 recognition of that moment which gives credibility to it so if everybody for 45 minutes is talking

00:25:36.620 about how there are cruise missiles headed toward us on social media that becomes the reality at

00:25:43.980 that moment people are running for the hills like oh this is at the end what about this how hard is

00:25:48.620 it to unring the bell now great question that's a great question i i don't know and i think they

00:25:55.580 don't know mike i think they're figuring it out uh i think about what ai's doing with news now

00:26:02.140 and entertainment and this past summer matt damon and the odyssey one of the big movies of the year

00:26:07.020 right with ai they're using matt damon and ai to create fake odyssey videos and they'll they're

00:26:13.820 putting in like matt damon with a musician politician actor your buddy and it looks like

00:26:20.540 they're on the ship with matt damon in the odyssey you know like that that kind of thing it's crazy

00:26:25.260 how and they're doing it days after the movie came out i i when you said morgan freeman yesterday one

00:26:31.020 of the guys on staff here showed me there's a remake of a jimmy hendrix song that's huge right

00:26:37.180 now in nepal but not only is that song huge but the thumbnails it's been posted a thousand ways

00:26:44.380 there's a bunch of thumbnails and all they're doing is making the lead singer look like morgan

00:26:49.340 freeman make him look like this actor that actor and uh jimmy hendrix in fact the the so they

00:26:55.660 in marketing this they're using falsified visuals that are meant to lead you down the path and it

00:27:04.720 by the way it's he did a great job but the use of these characters cannot be legal you know and i

00:27:11.440 think about the phone addiction that society has mike and how we can get sucked in and i know i'm

00:27:19.180 guilty our youngest daughter has a mini dachshund so will our family trade ai videos of dachshunds 1.00

00:27:26.800 making pasta and driving a truck and and playing hockey like those and they're so stupid and i know 0.94

00:27:33.440 it's ai you know but i i find it entertaining so but so then when someone makes a real ai video 0.98

00:27:39.000 of something happening you're like oh wait it's so now the one with the animals just driving around

00:27:44.640 oh yeah they're shifting gears and they've got their their drive-through they're going on a road

00:27:49.520 trip i love that stuff i know but the problem is jim it's very convincing right so okay so if we got

00:27:56.240 an announcement if we saw a video later in the day that there was a funeral for all those animals that

00:28:01.040 they didn't make it after the drive we'd all believe maybe that that was so that that false

00:28:08.000 announcement yeah uh culture is disappearing because it's we're so awash in false mike it's

00:28:16.240 we're being overwhelmed by it yeah overwhelmed because back in the day a false announcement

00:28:21.760 stood out because it didn't happen that often because the checks and balances newsrooms media

00:28:27.760 organizations entertainment organizations had enough staff to vet stuff and as business have

00:28:33.680 taken over and cut cut cut personnel instead of 12 and 16 people in the newsroom in a night shift

00:28:40.160 there's one one yeah one one who's scraping all these doing everything getting it written pulling

00:28:46.000 the clips everything so mistakes are being made that didn't get made before i noticed the other

00:28:51.680 day that there is pr automation uh ai pr automation where you can basically um put out announcements

00:29:01.600 that go directly to press and to uh the platforms that are that look certified and verified by other

00:29:10.880 news sources and they are completely false oh mike i read one from a prominent sports website

00:29:19.280 that is very legitimate and they did an announcement about a hockey player in the

00:29:23.520 contract but it was ai written and in it they gave them awards and championships they have not

00:29:29.200 received or won and people like wait a sec did a write this because right that guy hasn't won that

00:29:35.120 award or what like what are you doing and again so it was done ai they hit publish no one no one

00:29:42.560 looked at it and said mike wickson didn't win the mvp what are you doing that's the the verification

00:29:48.720 pro so a we don't believe anything anymore no that i don't believe is an accident by the way i'll put

00:29:53.600 my tinfoil hat on and say you know the easiest confusion is to convince people that what they

00:29:58.880 believe is not true and that they're crazy for thinking that that gaslighting is something

00:30:02.720 we're doing to ourselves yes and then the second thing is we're in a position now where we have

00:30:10.080 disabled ourselves from actually communicating achievements bad news sad news important news

00:30:18.880 life-saving news yes yes yes mike yeah a thousand times yes and and unfortunately it's a difficult

00:30:26.880 trend i have a mother god bless her still alive she's going to be 85 at the end of the year

00:30:32.400 and for seniors who um basically spend a lot of time alone they have their tv if they see something

00:30:40.080 false they don't know it they believe it then i get a call or i get a note and you know let me

00:30:44.800 check and think about all the seniors around the world who are spend time watching tv or reading

00:30:50.720 news on the internet well they're in their era that if it was said or written or published

00:30:57.680 it must be true and you know it's so funny jim that you you talk about the seniors because 0.97

00:31:01.760 i'm just as likely to be the guy to go holy crap jim look at these freaking cats shifting gears 0.95

00:31:07.040 over here they're going through the drive-through they really they're really good in the clutch 0.95

00:31:12.000 train these cats oh yeah so um it it's a difficult thing we're dealing with in society mike because

00:31:19.040 it's getting more and more pervasive that false announcement politically especially during an

00:31:24.720 election it's been look they've admitted all western governments canada western europe usa

00:31:30.480 about foreign interference in elections entirely so ai and false announcements in an election has

00:31:36.400 become a big issue for us as a society it is interesting that i've seen several and i know

00:31:42.160 you have too i've seen several uh videos that are not mark carney making announcements i've seen

00:31:47.760 several quotes with uh donald trump saying things that were obviously not either out of context or

00:31:54.880 not were completely false how many did they fool too many right too many and then they don't if

00:32:01.360 you don't see the correction you're going around for the next few days going oh mark carney said

00:32:05.680 remember about like oh no i don't think that's right yeah uh and by the time you've corrected

00:32:11.840 the horse is out of the barn it's too late when you want momentum any friction against the actual

00:32:17.200 truth if you're headed in the right direction and the truth is required any friction against

00:32:22.360 that will slow you down i promise you that that's true oh let me just see here hold on a second

00:32:26.580 i'm back in the mayor's race in toronto jim thanks for talking announcements thank you my friend

True Patriot Love - August 28, 2026

Can You Trust Breaking News in the Age of AI？

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