The Florida Republican claimed to be using Cloud as a proofreader, nothing more.
If there’s one thing we love more than catching a politician doing something stupid, it’s having an excuse to try to get out of it. The latest involves Florida Republican Anna Paulina Luna, who was caught using AI in drafting an amendment to a bill because the text included the phrase “The cloud responded:”. Which may indicate that someone pasted it into a conversation with the anthropic chatbot of the same name and forgot to hide it. Luna quickly shut down the accusation, posting on
Anna Paulina Luna/X (Screenshot)
Shortly after, his posts were deleted, probably because it wouldn’t be ideal to admit that you used AI to do your job. He then posted a revised clarification, saying, “My staff used AI to check the spelling/grammar of the amendment summary, not the actual amendment text.” Shortly after, she posted again, saying, “FYI no law is ever drafted with AI,” and that the screenshot was only showing “an AI summary of the bill that is also used for spell checking.” He also asked “Which dork created this story?” And, to further cement your justifiable credentials, throw in tears of joy emojis for good measure.
Now, look, I’m just a simple, rustic lawyer and not in any of your highfalutin fancy ways, so I completely trust Luna’s response. After all, it makes perfect sense for someone to use an AI chatbot to check their spelling and grammar, since this feature hasn’t been widely available on computers since Luna was six years old. Hey, even if you used the superhuman (Grammar) brand of awesome AI to check your spelling and grammar, it wouldn’t insert references to your brand into the text of the documents you’re working on. Which makes me think that, you know, maybe parts of this story haven’t been properly investigated.
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