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A Downing Street aide used ChatGPT to suggest ways to make a speech draft “a little more emotive”, the Daily Star reports. The suggestion was not used, and Downing Street says the draft had already been written.
Why it mattersThe episode offers a small, concrete glimpse of AI being used as an editing aid in political work, rather than to write a speech from scratch. Downing Street says the Prime Minister writes most of his own speeches, a distinction worth keeping when the chatbot gets a walk-on role.
Discuss: Should politicians disclose when AI has helped edit their speeches, even if they keep the final wording?
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