I got fooled…
Patrice Godin recently posted on Instagram with a bitter edge: visibly fed up with social media, he admits he was duped… and he questions his online presence.
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He says he shared a story on his page in haste, without taking the time to analyze what he was posting, only to realize he’d been duped by an AI-generated creation. In the wake of that realization, he lists the main reasons that could push him to walk away from social media for good, a possibility he now sees as not too far off.
His three reasons mainly center on the toxicity that festers on networks and the rise of artificial intelligence—an astonishing tool, often helpful and increasingly pervasive as it advances, but capable of becoming downright toxic in the wrong hands.
“I posted a ‘story’ this morning on Instagram and here. I went too fast, didn’t take the time to analyze (we’ve reached that point). I got fooled, obviously. It sickens me. Sorry about that. If I ever leave social media for good one day (which probably won’t be soon, given how things are), there will be three main reasons: the growing division; the ideologues on the right and the left; and artificial intelligence. That’ll be all for today,” he states, visibly shaken by these scourges that corrode social media and society.
So don’t be surprised if, one day, the actor’s online profiles—now also a wildland firefighter—disappear: we’ll know exactly what pushed him to unplug everything.
The Downside of Social Media and Other Notable Public Exits
Speaking of the darker side of social networks, it’s worth noting that many public figures regularly speak out to denounce identity theft online—a problem that continues to gain ground.
Recently, it was weather presenter Colette Provencher who sounded the alarm, publicly denouncing that she had been the target of online impersonation—a frustrating situation.
On her Instagram page, the public figure addressed her followers directly, posting a story in which she warned her audience and asked anyone who had received a friend request in her name not to accept it.
“Do not accept a Facebook friend request bearing my name… a crew of scoundrels are out there impersonating accounts, including mine,” she wrote, pairing her message with an emoji that clearly conveyed her emotion.
To learn more about this topic, you can read our full article, which goes into detail and also profiles other personalities affected by the same phenomenon.
Back to Patrice…
The public figure has undergone a substantial career pivot, a choice he explained in more depth during a visit with Isabelle Maréchal on the air of QUB. Patrice Godin spoke candidly about his new vocation as a forest firefighter with SOPFEU, a job he’s been doing since joining the Havre-Saint-Pierre base on the North Shore.
Having held this position since the summer of 2024, he reflected on his desire to take a step back from the arts scene, even though he has not completely abandoned his acting career.
“It’s a big step I took, and I felt I needed to redefine myself, to find another sense of purpose in life and in what I wanted to do, and for a long time I had wanted to pursue a service-minded profession,” he said, noting that his career choice was influenced by his age and by his reluctance to go back to school.
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In recent years, it seems Patrice has been doing a major purge of his life—across his career and perhaps his online presence as well. We can only wish him happiness, gentleness, and serenity as he moves forward.
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