Who said it: an Australian MP or ChatGPT?

Labor MP Julian Hill and Liberal MP Aaron Violi both used OpenAI's artificial intelligence tool to help write speeches for parliament. Could you spot the difference?

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The artificial intelligence application ChatGPT has already been banned in some state schools over concerns it could help students cheat, but some Australian MPs had no such qualms when they delivered speeches partially written by the tool in parliament this week.

ChatGPT has a reputation for saying a lot without saying much at all, so perhaps it's ideally suited to the job of parliamentary speechwriter - or maybe it's smarter than we give it credit for.