Sweden's Deputy PM admits to using fake AI quote in landmark speech (she is a RWer)

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Sweden's deputy prime minister, Ebba Busch, has admitted to using a fake AI quote in a speech at the Almedalen political festival, arguably her most high profile speech of the year.

https://www.thelocal.se/20250815/swedens-deputy-pm-admits-to-fake-ai-quote-in-landmark-speech

https://archive.ph/dj2h6



In the speech, Busch quoted the left-wing journalist Elina Pahnke as having said: "Men's power is not an abstraction - it is concrete, and it crushes lives". The quote came as part of a section in the speech where Busch quoted a succession of Sweden feminists portraying men as violent or dangerous. "Men are animals...no sorry, worse than animals," ran another of the quotes.

In an article in the Aftonbladet newspaper on Thursday, however, Pahnke complained that she could neither remember writing the quote, not find any evidence that she had done so, adding that she had contacted the Christian Democrats to ask them where they had found it.

This prompted a post on Facebook by Busch on Thursday evening apologising and admitting that the quote had in fact been fabricated by an AI tool. "That I attributed to her something she did not say verbatim is extremely unfortunate and I would of course like to apologize to both her and everyone who listened," Busch wrote.

In the post, Busch said when her team had questioned the AI tool over where the quote had come from, it had claimed it appeared both in a "deleted tweet" by Pahnke and in an article the magazine Arbetet from 2017. "It was even said how the quote had been shared on X, as well as how many likes and retweets it resulted in. The AI tool thus appears to have made up what had been on X," she said.

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1. nice to know other countries have seriously stupid politicians