Should politicians use AI for speeches as Andy Burnham exposed over ChatGPT ‘sham’?

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Andy Burnham has been accused of being a "sham" after a Downing Street speechwriter was caught using AI to draft an address. Pictures show the aide drinking prosecco on a train…

Andy Burnham has been accused of being a "sham" after a Downing Street speechwriter was caught using AI to draft an address. Pictures show the aide drinking prosecco on a train while using ChatGPT on Friday (November 13). The revelation has sparked debate over whether politicians should use AI to draft or perfect their speeches.

The No.10 speechwriter was seen using ChatGPT to edit an address by the Prime Minister while on the train from London Euston to Holyhead. Pictures obtained by the mail revealed he asked the bot to make Burnham's speech at Welsh Labour's annual party congference "a little more emotive".

ChatGPT replied: "I prefer the second [passage]. It moves from the miners to their families to the wider community, showing how the experience of industrial work created bonds well beyond the workplace. And it leaves the working men’s clubs, choirs and other social infrastructures for the next passage."

A Downing Street spokesman has since insisted that Burnham "writes most of his own speeches". They added that the aide "sought feedback" on a speech that had already been written.

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Reform UK chairman Lee Anderson has since accused the Prime Minister of being a "sham" and "artificial". He joked that it must be "thirsty work" writing his speeches.

He told the Mail on Sunday: "His bubbly-drinking socialists have no plan to tackle the cost-of-living crisis. AI Andy’s man-of-the-people act has been exposed as a sham.

"He’s an artificial Prime Minister who doesn’t have the faintest clue what he believes or what he’s doing."

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