Kolkata interview ‘AI-generated fabricated’ report, says Fakhrul

Senior BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said Kolkata-based daily Ei Samay’s report on him claiming that the Jamaat-e-Islami’s demand linked to proportional representation was a pressure tactic was “fabricated”. Amid debate over the report on Tuesday, Fakhrul, now in New York, told bdnews24.com that the newspaper used “artificial intelligence” to produce this “false, misleading” information. “Can any political leader make such nonsense statements? You tell me. This is deliberate. I did not say anything like that in Ei Samay.” Recently, Ei Samay carried what it described as an interview with Fakhrul, quoting him as saying Jamaat had demanded 30 seats, but the BNP offered far fewer, which Jamaat found unacceptable. The report also cited Fakhrul as saying, “We...