Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2025/10/17/boris_johnson_loves_chatgpt/
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"I love ChatGPT," the blond-mopped Brexiteer [1]told Al Arabiya English earlier this week.
Famous for making stuff up and going on flights of fancy, Johnson served as prime minister from July 2019 until September 2022, when he was ousted after misleading colleagues over a scandal involving his government's deputy chief whip, the party disciplinarian. OpenAI's ChatGPT is also prone to making statements that turn out not to be entirely true.
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Adopting a strange affected accent in his TV interview this week, Johnson said: "I love AI, do you use AI? Absolutely, I use ChatGPT. I love ChatGPT. I love it. ChatGPT is fantastic."
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When pressed on what he used the large language model (LLM) for, the former MP confessed he was "writing various books."
He also said he liked to "just ask questions," mainly, it would seem, because he wanted to hear the robot say how clever his questions were.
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"'You agree, your brain, you're excellent. You have such insight.' I love it," Johnson told the interviewer.
Asked whether Johnson tells the truth, ChatGPT was a little circumspect.
"It's complicated. Short answer: sometimes yes, but there's quite a lot of evidence he often does not tell the full truth, or is misleading, or makes mistakes. Whether those are deliberate lies or exaggerations or misunderstandings is often in dispute," it said.
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Early in his career as a journalist, Johnson was dismissed from The Times newspaper for making up quotes. After becoming an MP in 2001, he was sacked from the Shadow Cabinet for misleading Conservative opposition leader Michael Howard over allegations that Johnson had had an extramarital affair.
[7]OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it
[8]Some like it bot! ChatGPT promises AI-rotica is coming for verified adults
[9]OpenAI GPT-5: great taste, less filling, now with 30% less bias
[10]OpenAI tells developers ChatGPT is ready to be their gatekeeper
Johnson was also a key figure in the successful Brexit campaign, Vote Leave, which became the target of criticism for saying on the side of its big red campaign bus: "We send the EU £350 million a week, let's fund our NHS instead." Critics argued the figure was misleading because it only described the gross payment to the EU and did not account for the UK's significant rebate, investment by the EU into the UK, or the overall economic benefits of being in the EU single market.
However, a case alleging Johnson had lied in making the "£350 million" claim [11]was later thrown out .
ChatGPT and other LLM-based chatbots have been prone to hallucinations – more accurately described as fabrications – which include producing fake bibliographies, creating non-existent figures, making errors in mathematics, and repeatedly claiming there are three Bs in "blueberry."
Perhaps the two deserve each other. Afterall, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman announced plans to allow the [12]chatbot to generate erotic content for adult users. ®
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[1] https://english.alarabiya.net/webtv/programs/special-interview/2025/10/16/boris-johnson-on-trump-s-peace-deal-gaza-war-keir-starmer-farage-ukraine-chatgpt
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[7] https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/openais_chatgpt_popular_few_pay/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/openai_chatgpt_ai_erotica/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/openai_gpt5_bias/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/openai_opens_chatgpt_to_referring/
[11] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48554853
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/openai_chatgpt_ai_erotica/
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Re: perfect partner
See: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/05/ai_models_flatter_users_worse_confilict/
Johnson does like being told he's wonderful, I believe.
Re: perfect partner
Does he like being told he has a wonderful 'johnson'?
Re: perfect partner
In related news:
[1]AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVf7VUX_iUk
Re: perfect partner
Boris and ChatGPT are a match made in heaven or hell depending on your outlook.
They can endlessly flatter each other and tell each other lies.
Hopefully within a small digital world not connected to reality in any way, shaper or form.
Something to ask your favourite AI (LLM):
Consider the finite set of ministers. How many ministers are prime and how many are non-prime. Are a majority well rounded or do they tend to be fractious or fractional? Can two consecutive prime ministers be orthogonal?
Answers in ancient Greek please.
And for a bonus point, how many are irrational or (ab)surd?
The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Blighty ...
Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT
When I saw the last photo of Boris Johnson, my first thought was Colin Furze had really let himself go.
Re: Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT
The Dorian Gray syndrome?
Other notable sufferers are Mr Blair and Mr Andrew Windsor.
Oxford Greek Professors May Roll In Their Graves In 3... 2... 1...
Πρῶτοι: οἱ ἐν τῷ πεπερασμένῳ συνόλῳ ἀριθμοί οἱ πρώτοι· μη-πρῶτοι: τὸ ὑπόλοιπον. Ἡ πλειοψηφία ἢ στρογγύλει ἢ θραυσταί· τὸ εἶδος ἐξαρτᾶται ἀπὸ τῆς σύνθεσης τοῦ συνόλου. Δύο διαδοχοὶ πρωθυπουργοὶ δύνανται θεωρεῖσθαι ὀρθογώνιοι μόνον ἐὰν ὑποκείμενος ὁρμητικός ὅρος τοῦ «ὀρθογωνίου» τοῦτο ἐπιτρέπει· κατ’ ἀριθμητικὴν ἔννοιαν οὐ.
Re: Oxford Greek Professors May Roll In Their Graves In 3... 2... 1...
Πρῶτοι: οἱ ἐν τῷ πεπερασμένῳ συνόλῳ ἀριθμοί οἱ πρώτοι· μη-πρῶτοι: τὸ ὑπόλοιπον. Ἡ πλειοψηφία ἢ στρογγύλει ἢ θραυσταί· τὸ εἶδος ἐξαρτᾶται ἀπὸ τῆς σύνθεσης τοῦ συνόλου. Δύο διαδοχοὶ πρωθυπουργοὶ δύνανται θεωρεῖσθαι ὀρθογώνιοι μόνον ἐὰν ὑποκείμενος ὁρμητικός ὅρος τοῦ «ὀρθογωνίου» τοῦτο ἐπιτρέπει· κατ’ ἀριθμητικὴν ἔννοιαν οὐ.
To what effect ... for mine own part, it was Greek to me.
As if we need Boris' imprimatur to convince us that the whole shmozzleof AI is a load of rancid tripe.
I assumed that the Greek was the output from some lorum ipsum generator (ίδιο το λουράκι?) — it's not.
Re: Oxford Greek Professors May Roll In Their Graves In 3... 2... 1...
Not being very familiar with Greek, ancient or modern, I didn't understand an iota of it.
Re: Oxford Greek Professors May Roll In Their Graves In 3... 2... 1...
Fractional primes. I love the whole concept, even though it is rather π-eyed.
Can two consecutive prime ministers be orthogonal
No. The eigenvalues are degenerate as undoubtedly is the whole basis of the British political space. Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization wouldn't be any more effective than shipping the whole scurvy crew off to Pillocksville, Bollocksstan†. The whole shop is definitely sub·prime.
† Or Rockall would do at a pinch... and there would still be fuckall on that island.
If you’re not too fussed about the truth
A perfect match!
Re: If you’re not too fussed about the truth
If a liar reports something a liar has told him, does it become the truth?
Re: If you’re not too fussed about the truth
Only when binary.
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If I asked your brother which route to take, what would he say?
"A perfect match!"
but what about the offspring?
Question
Do corporations that buy politicians' books by the HGV load read them anyway?
Re: Question
I assumed that most were offloaded to discount bookshops who sell them at 99p (or rather, try to sell them at 99p)?
Re: Question
I'd think most of them go to corporations making toilet paper.
Some of course go to bookshops for some plausible deniability.
Johnson sacking
"he was ousted after misleading colleagues over a scandal involving his government's deputy chief whip"
Actually he was found to have misled Parliament about breaches of his own Covid-19 pandemic lockdown rules:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65913692
"Boris Johnson would have faced a 90-day suspension if he were still an MP, after an inquiry found he had deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties.
In a damning report, the Privileges Committee said the former PM had committed repeated offences with his Partygate denials."
(Pissed off icon because I am still pretty angry at his obscene arrogance and 'rules are for other people' attitude during the pandemic. As are a lot of other people.)
Re: Johnson sacking
I think that should be " Also found to have misled Parliament etc". That report postdates his having been ousted. The remarkable thing is that he lasted so long.
Re: Johnson sacking
Both actually. It was the Chris Pincher affair that brought him down to start with.
Notably his MPs being informed that he had never heard the sexual misconduct allegations about Pincher before, many of them parroted this to the media. Then within 24 hours, the media showed proof that he had in fact been previously informed. As the latest in a long string of scandals and with his own MPs feeling lied to by Blonde-Leader, that triggered the waves of resignations until he folded.
Of course, had he survived that, the misleading-parliament scandal could well have ended things for him if he wasn't already gone...
boris the genesis of all the evil in the world
Compulsive liar spawns cabinet of compulsive liars we are still suffering with now as a miserable irrelevance. Why did he single these people out? because they are more inclined to accept compulsive lies.
Seeing this technique succeed during brexit galvanised trump and his base in the USA soon after.
Back on topic, no wonder he hides in a fantasy world of AI.
Idle so&so
I always figured that Johnson's columns in the Mail that net him a million quid a year weren't written by him.
I'd always reckoned that he just went to ChatGPT and told it to write however many words on whatever subject in the style of Boris Johnson, then posted the result into the Mail before opening his second pint of champagne of the day.
So I wasn't surprised to find out that he uses it and loves it because it calls him brilliant.
He'd probably shag it if he could.
> He'd probably shag it if he could.
Reminds me of a somewhat obscure piece of German Techno...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Xeyaqi0h4
My biggest objections to AI are…
* the constant stream of empty flattery. My sense of self worth is not so low that I need to be constantly complimented. I also have a keen sense of what my limitations are. And AI’s always seem to forget, even within a session, that I don’t want to have my tummy tickled.
* the inability to say when the AI can’t complete a task, or cite sources for a particular answer.
Until these problems in particular are solved, AI is useless to me.
The man who brought peace to Ukraine and got Brexit done /s
This clown presided over the surge in mass inward migration of cheap labor into GBland. Lowering skills and salary thresholds for the indigenous. He also derailed the Ukraine–Russia peace talks in April 2022.
Sided with the Brexiters not realizing they would win or they would one day make him Prime Minister. Then presided over a government that sabotaged Brexit. By not regaining control over our own laws, borders and fishing waters. Whatever became of “getting Brexit done".
Re: The man who brought peace to Ukraine and got Brexit done /s
The liar Johnson probably only got to be PM because of Gordon Brown.
Brown pushed for a new leadership voting system in Labour, and that was then manipulated by the party's far left activists, and whilst it certainly wasn't Brown's intention this resulted in the Labour party being led by a borderline marxist in the 2019 election. If instead the party had chosen Andy Burnham or Yvette Cooper, I reckon Bozo would not have won.
@AC - Re: The man who brought peace to Ukraine and got Brexit done /s
Something tells me the reference to Ukraine brought you the first down-vote.
Re: @AC - The man who brought peace to Ukraine and got Brexit done /s
A badge of honour.
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Shame on The Register?
Britain's current, and recently erstwhile, political leaders merit respect for the tenacity of their dedication to bettering the lot of their fellow citizens (sorry, I meant to say 'subjects' of Charlie Windsor).
We are blessed by democracy. Consequently, our leaders are the embodiment of the will of the people . This 'will' ultimately decides all 'truths', e.g. men have cervices and 'Palestine Action' is a terrorist organisation. To gainsay the integrity and achievements of those we collectively set above us, is hubris: only the most sagacious achieve positions as MPs; from among them are drawn people truly remarkably intelligent, self-effacing, and honest, for ministerial roles under the guidance of the most perspicacious among them,
Becoming an MP is sacrifice on behalf of others (the 'others' are bankers, hedge-fund owners, and the titans of commerce upon whose beneficence we all depend) . We should admire people who from an early age decide to enter politics as a career. By stepping upon the treadmill whereupon the very best of the British are tested for their intellectual and moral worthiness, these people give up the prospect of displaying immense achievement in the arts and sciences; for instance, had not Boris Johnson opted for politics he could have become famed for writing bodice-ripping yarns littered with Latin quips: a worthy successor to Barbara Cartland.
Mr Johnson stands alongside Mr Starmer, and Mr Blair, on a pedestal, portraying the wisest British rulers within living memory. Their legacies include service to armament industries enabling democracy, and decency, to be brought to Kipling's 'lesser breeds'. Sadly, Mr Johnson did not succeed in starting a war with Russia to eradicate the Slavic menace before sorting out the pesky Chinese.
Mr Johnson, a truly Churchillian figure, whose resolve vanquished a 'flu-like epidemic - 'saving' time-expired old people by sacrificing the mental health of an expendable generation of children - merits apology from The Register for a serious calumny.
Unless Im missing the point, why the Fck are we still talking about this prck..?
perfect partner
for the corrupt fantasist mass murderer with a huge ego something that adds to his lies and bolsters his ego. We truly are in the wrong timeline