Former President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had a speech “rewritten by AI” which impressed him so much that he decided to “use this,” remarks which come amid concerns about the potential impact of artificial intelligence and deep fakes on the 2024 presidential elections.
FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump said he had one ... [+]
The former president appeared on YouTuber Logan Paul’s podcast on Thursday evening and said he thought AI was “really powerful stuff,” adding that “we’re right at the beginning of it…and it is alarming.”
Trump, however, spoke about how impressed he was with the technology when someone helped him rewrite one of his speeches using AI.
Without naming anyone, Trump said “one of the top people” found out he was going to make a speech and then “He goes click click click, and like 15 seconds later he shows me my speech, written so beautifully, I said, ‘I’m gonna use this sucker.’”
The former president added that he had never seen anything like this, and when asked what he had to say to his speechwriter, Trump looked at the camera and joked “You’re fired, Vince!” (referring to his speechwriter Vince Haley)
This is a developing story.