It took an assassination attempt on her husband to persuade Melania Trump to whip off her “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” jacket and express her intimate feelings.

The day after the traumatic Pennsylvania rally, the former first lady issued a rare public statement. In the 12 paragraphs released, only two mentioned her husband. The rest was a call to reunite America and remind people that “Political concepts are simple when compared to us, human beings.”

Writing this statement must have been a tough assignment, especially for a non-native English speaker. No one expected the Slovenian-born former model to suddenly turn into Joan Didion. Still, there’s an awkwardness to her phrasing that raises some questions, including why does Trump keep mentioning the word “human.” Who would do that?

A machine would do that. In fact, The Daily Beast started to wonder if perhaps Trump had turned to ChatGPT 4.0 for assistance in crafting a statement. Why not? Lots of humans do it. And if she did, who would ever learn her secret?

Except ChatGPT is pretty chatty. So we downloaded the full text of Trump’s statement (see below) into ChatGPT 4.0 and asked the program to assess the likelihood that the words were generated by AI. Here is ChatGPT’s response [with our adds in bold]:

“There are several elements in the letter that might indicate it was written by a large-language model like ChatGPT or a similar piece of software. Here are some potential clues:

Repetitive and Redundant Phrases: Phrases like “I am thinking of you, my fellow Americans,” are repeated, which can sometimes be a characteristic of language models that overuse certain phrases to create emphasis or........

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