Canada rejects immigration application due to hallucinations by government's AI

A biomedical researcher in Canada had her application for permanent residency rejected due to conflicting descriptions of her current job duties and her work experience. Those "current job duties" turn out to have been hallucinated by an AI system used by IRCC (Canada’s immigration agency).

That's my own summary after reading the article. No AI involved.

I myself moved from the US to Canada and gained permanent residency a few years ago. I'm grateful that my NAFTA visa and PR applications were reviewed by real live humans, in some cases while they were sitting right in front of me.

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