Matt Goodwin is facing allegations of using false quotes and artificial intelligence in his new book.
The GB News presenter and failed Reform by-election candidate has this month released his latest work – Suicide of a Nation: Immigration, Islam, Identity.
The book is exactly what you’d expect it to be about, and sees Goodwin parrot his usual claims about threat Islam being a threat to the UK and immigration being a danger to British culture.
But whilst there’s no surprise by now about the inflammatory arguments made by Goodwin, there has been surprise and ridicule directed towards him over apparent uses of ChatGPT to write the piece.
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In a lengthy thread on X, political commentator Andy Twelves said that there were several instances of “false quotes and basic misinterpretations of data” in the first five chapters of the book alone.
He said these “appear to be AI hallucinations.”
Over the thread, Twelves outlines these apparent false claims, many of which he could find absolutely no evidence or proof of.
This includes claims from Goodwin about the proportion of children in primary school classes who don’t speak English as a first language.
Twelves also finds examples of Goodwin citing quotes from historical figures that they appear to have never said.
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