Is ChatGPT running for office?
These candidates are getting a little too intelligent if you ask us.
Last week, we got a tip that we had been waiting for1 — a Democratic congressional candidate had allegedly been writing their policy statements, campaign emails and even opinion pieces submitted to newspapers with ChatGPT.
It’s one of those moments you just knew would happen eventually — AI language models like ChatGPT are forcing all sectors of society to reexamine the line between being efficient and being lazy, between using the tools at hand and cheating, between human gobbledygook writing and artificially intelligent gobbledygook writing.
Why should politics be any different?
So we started investigating. Sure enough, a whole lot of content from the candidate in question consistently hits above 70% likely to be written by artificial intelligence by AI detectors like GPTZero, QuillBot and Sapling.
Which got us thinking, if this candidate is using ChatGPT to write their content, what are the odds that they’re the only one?
And after thorough research, we can conclusively tell you that many Arizona political candidates are using ChatGPT to write or enhance at least some portion of their campaign materials.
That is, at least, if you believe the AI detectors.
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