Aides to Prime Minister Andy Burnham have been accused of using ChatGPT to edit a draft speech, after a team member was photographed looking at AI suggestions while travelling to the Welsh Labour conference. Metro reports the aide was seen reading AI feedback on a passage intended to make the prime minister’s language more “emotive,” with the images taken on a train journey from London Euston to Holyhead.
No 10 says the prime minister writes “most of his own speeches,” and a spokesperson adds that an aide sought feedback on a draft that had already been written. Metro says the speech was later delivered at the Welsh Labour Conference in Llandudno, where Burnham spoke on Labour’s position in Wales and on Thatcher’s legacy, but did not use the specific lines shown in the photographs.
Across outlets, the core focus is the photograph of AI use and No 10’s response. Metro adds more detail about what the AI purportedly suggested and the travel context, while the Evening Standard and The Independent concentrate more on the headline point of No 10’s rebuttal and confirmation of the general drafting process.
