Just be honest
The ODT reports:
When speaking to 1News yesterday, Ms Leary was asked “do you use ChatGPT to generate any of your questions?”
Ms Leary told the reporter she did not “directly use ChatGPT to ask questions”.
“I use AI to help me analyse documents. I formulate my own questions.”
This was a lie.
In the email to Ms Costello from Ms Leary, there were 20 questions and a range of prompts.
The prompts promised that “below are sharper, more specific and more prosecutorial question sets tailored precisely to Ingrid Leary’s style.”
They came from her parliamentary email at 11pm on Tuesday.
Another prompt said “these are designed to trap the minister, create clear contrasts and highlight delay [and] resident harm”.
Ben Thomas has a great take on this.
Heh.
1News then showed her the email, and Leary claimed she was “not aware of that email”, did not recall sending the email and could not comment.
Ms Leary then said she would “check with her office”, and suggested the email could have come from a someone else in her office.
“There are others in my office who have access to my emails, so I’ll need to find out what’s happened.
Further lies.
Ms Leary later told 1News she did, in fact, use ChatGPT and the email did come from her.
There was just no reason to lie. There is nothing wrong with using ChatGPT to suggest questions for select committee. Leary should have just said “Yes of course I used ChatGPT to suggest questions. It’s a great tool and can read through a huge amount of documents in seconds, and highlight areas of focus. However I then decide for myself which actual questions to pursue”
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