Here’s a good catch by journalist Norman Spector. From The New York Times corrections page for May 2, 2026 (emphasis mine):
An article on April 15 about the success that Mark Carney, the Liberal prime minister of Canada, has had in building cross-party alliances was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned. The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.
It is very easy these days to simply accept the results of AI queries as fact, especially as Google’s AI-augmented search blurs the line between information retrieval and editorial with their obligatory AI summaries. Let this be a reminder to check your AI outputs, especially for text you are trying to render verbatim.