Tommy Tuberville asks ChatGPT how to vote during long Alabama drives
Sen. Tommy Tuberville has found a way to pass the long drives across Alabama: chatting out loud with ChatGPT about major policy issues.
The Alabama Republican, now eyeing the governor's mansion, peppers the bot with questions about Medicare and Medicaid and listens as its voice answers back, according to The Washington Post.
"It's kind of like you can sit there and talk to an expert," he told the Post. "You don't know whether or not they're 100 percent correct. But they put you on the right path."
Across Capitol Hill, lawmakers and staffers quietly lean on artificial intelligence to write speeches and press releases, sift through constituent mail, prep hearing questions and even draft amendments, often, the Post found, with rules almost no one follows.
In one embarrassing instance, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's staffers copied a chatbot's reply, including a timestamp, straight into the public record of the annual defense bill. The garbled line included a stray "11:25 AM" and the tell-tale words "Claude responded."
Luna, for her part, appeared unbothered.
"Not a shocker," she wrote. "Most staff use it." She later doubled down, telling the Post that aides across Capitol Hill lean on ChatGPT, Claude and Grok. She prefers Grok, though her staffer likes Claude.
The Post interviewed more than two dozen lawmakers and aides. Both chambers have cleared chatbots for official work, and the House alone bought 6,000 Microsoft Copilot licenses. One GOP aide dumped years of texts and contacts into a personal Claude account to build a database of every reporter he's ever pitched. Another lets Claude run his office's taxpayer-funded mail budget.
MAGA darling may be walking into ‘Super Bowl of murder content’ trap: report
There's a storm brewing over an upcoming debate between MAGA heavyweights, according to a new report.
On Friday, MAGA personalities Candace Owens and Andrew Wilson will face off in a debate about Charlie Kirk's assassination, The Bulwark reported. Owens plans to present a case that there is a broader conspiracy at play, while Wilson plans to argue that Tyler Robinson, Kirk's accused killer, acted out of his own volition.
“This debate will be the Super Bowl of Charlie murder content,” Michael Knowles, a MAGA media personality on The Daily Wire network, told The Bulwark. “Millions of people will watch it, lots of money will be made, lots of opinions will be put forward.”
There's just one catch. The debate isn't about exposing the truth about Kirk's killing. Instead, it seems to be a ploy for Wilson to boost his name recognition within the MAGA-sphere.
"Wilson is effectively paying Owens to collaborate with him and boost his profile in the MAGA movement, like an unknown rapper paying a star for a guest verse on his track," Will Sommer, a reporter for The Bulwark, noted in the article.
"Wilson’s wild spending in pursuit of debate clout has raised the prospect that he’s a stalking horse for TPUSA’s own efforts to undermine Owens. The thought has certainly occurred to Owens herself," Sommer added. "At one point, she said she would only debate Wilson if a TPUSA higher-up like Erika Kirk acknowledged that he represented them. That condition actually doesn’t appear to have been met, but the debate is still on."
