ChatGPT has dragged Donald Trump after saying that he has the reading age of an 11-year-old.
The latest criticism of the US president has come from an artificially intelligent chatbot.
The remark was made based on a post written by President Trump on his Truth Social account.
The chatbot analyzed a post Trump wrote about Putin
There, he talked about a recent phone call he’d had with Vladimir Putin.
However, this wasn’t necessarily clear to ChatGPT, who predicted that the post was written by someone with the literary comprehension of an 11 to 14 year old child.
Discussing the Russian war against Ukraine, Trump wrote: “I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the Dollar, and various other subjects.
“We both reflected on the Great History of our Nations, and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II, remembering that Russia lost tens of millions of people, and we, likewise, lost so many!”
Trump went on to talk about the strengths of both the US and Russia, ‘and the great benefit that we will someday have in working together’.
In an analysis done by the AI chatbot, it said: “The literary comprehension skills of the author appear to be at an early teenage level (around 11-14 years old). This assessment is based on several factors.
“Simple Sentence Structures – the text relies on relatively straightforward sentence construction, with a mix of short and long sentences but without complex syntax or nuanced argumentation.
ChatGPT has said Trump has the reading age of an 11 year old (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“Repetitive Phrasing – phrases like ‘We both reflected’, ‘We both believe very strongly in it’, and ‘we will someday have in working together’ suggest a lack of linguistic variety typical of more mature writing.
“Overuse of Exclamation Marks – frequent exclamation marks are more common in less formal or emotionally charged writing, which can indicate a less developed sense of tone in written communication.
“Basic Transitions and Coherence Issues – the text jumps between ideas without strong logical connectors, leading to a somewhat fragmented structure (e.g., transitioning abruptly from discussing historical alliances to a mention of negotiations).
“Overuse of Simple Vocabulary – while the topics discussed are serious and geopolitical in nature, the vocabulary remains relatively basic, with phrases like ‘very strong’, ‘great benefit’, and ‘wonderful man’. A more advanced writer would likely use more precise and varied word choices.”
ChatGPT concluded quite critically with: “Overall, while the content suggests an adult perspective on global affairs, the writing style aligns more with that of an early teenager or someone who relies on conversational rather than sophisticated literary expression.”
Donald Trump has a shocking answer in a resurfaced video from 1981 when he was asked if he’d ever run for president of the US.
The newly elected president had a very different view on politics back in the 80s, according to the clip.
In an interview with Rona Barrett, the then 34-year-old was quizzed about whether he had aspirations of the highest office in the country.
When asked if he would like to be president, Trump replied: “I really don’t believe I would, Rona, but I would like to see somebody as the president who could do the job and there are very capable people in this country.”
Trump was further asked why he didn’t want to be president, to which he elaborated: “Because I think it’s a very mean life. I would love to dedicate my life to this country but I
see it as being a mean life and I also see it that, somebody with strong views and somebody with the kind of views that are maybe a little bit unpopular, which may be right but may be unpopular, wouldn’t necessarily have a chance of getting elected against somebody with no great brain but a big smile and that’s a sad commentary for the political process.”
The president went on to add: “I mean, the Abraham Lincolns of the world, Abraham Lincoln would probably not be electable today because of television, he was not a
handsome man and he did not smile.”
Donald Trump wasn’t always so keen on becoming president (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Viewers of the resurfaced video were shocked to see a different side to Trump, with many taking to social media themselves to share their reactions.
One user wrote: “There is such a difference in energy between this Trump and current Trump, he seems so much calmer here.”
Another said: “This feels so wrong. It’s Donald Trump being calm and humble. This can’t be him.”
A third joked: “What a nice, tolerant, humble, well spoken individual. I hope he grows up to be a wise man someday.”
Meanwhile, a fourth person pointed out another aspect of the clip, saying: “The single most shocking thing in this video is when Trump let this woman finish her sentence, and even stopped himself from interrupting her!”
A fifth commented: “Wish he was more like this. It feels like he’s been roleplaying a WWE character since 2016.”
And a sixth user added: “This should have been followed with the clip where he says: ‘They’re eating the doooogs!’”
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Juggling our various subscriptions means it’s easy to lose track of your outgoings every month, and when you’re paying for Amazon Prime, Netflix, Spotify, and more at the same time, they can quickly add up. Paying more to get a ‘better’ version of something that was previously free is a major point of contention, with the likes of YouTube Premium and X Premium being divisive among users.
Still, the $13.99 a month not to get ads on YouTube is a far cry from ChatGPT‘s new Pro version which comes in at a jaw-dropping $200 a month.
Paying $2,400 a year for ChatGPT seems like an inordinate sum, especially when it’s 10 times what you’re currently paying for a subbed version of the chatbot. Soon after OpenAI released ChatGPT, it started charging for unlimited access and promised you’d get the best version of it.
ChatGPT Pro will be a premium version of the OG (VCG / Contributor / Getty)
The current tier costs $20 a month and gives you access to the likes of the hyper-intelligent GPT-o1 AI model and creepily realistic ‘Advanced Voice mode’ that was introduced earlier in 2024.
Are there really going to be those willing to pay $200 a month for an even fancier version?
In a post introducing ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI has vowed to give its subscribers “scaled access to the best of OpenAI’s models and tools.”
Giving you all the bells and whistles that the $20 version does, your extra $180 a month includes ‘o1 pro mode’. This is billed as a fancier version of o1 that uses more to compute but will ‘think harder’ to reportedly give answers to even harder questions. If you fancy yourself as something of an Albert Einstein and want to test your theories on ChatGPT, spending $200 a month could be for you.
OpenAI concludes: “In the future, we expect to add more powerful, compute-intensive productivity features to this plan.”
Users with the existing subscription will now get access to a ‘full’ o1 model, which apparently makes mistakes 34% less and can answer your queries 50% faster. The blog shows benchmarks of o1 Pro compared to earlier models, proving how much better it is at ‘competition math’, ‘competition code’, and ‘PhD-level science questions.’
In terms of the upper tier of ChatGPT Pro is aimed at, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explained in an announcement broadcast: “Power users of ChatGPT, at this point, they really use it a lot, and they want more compute than $20 can buy.”
After the $20 ChatGPT launched in February 2023, this is the latest offering in terms of premium pricing.
OpenAI plans to add more ‘compute-intensive productivity features’, hoping that ChatGPT Pro will grow as a way “for researchers, engineers, and other individuals who use research-grade intelligence daily to accelerate their productivity and be at the cutting edge of advancements in AI.”
You’re still warned that while ChatGPT Pro users will still get ‘unlimited access’ to o1, GPT-4o, and the Advanced Voice Mode feature, violating its terms of use like sharing an account between multiple users will get you banned.
If you’ve got the money and want to try ChatGPT Pro, OpenAi is offering to refund your $200 within the first two weeks if you aren’t satisfied with the update.
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Donald Trump has issued a blunt response to Elon Musk’s savage criticisms of his $500 billion AI deal.
The newly inaugurated US president shared a major plan for a project involving AI.
It will involve OpenAI partnering up with the likes of Oracle and Softbank to build data centers that are able to power AI and Trump has said that the plan is a ‘resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential’.
Trump gave his response from the Oval Office (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The plan, which has become known as Stargate, was first reported by tech site The Information in March 2024 during the Biden administration.
And according to Trump, the building of these data centers will create over 100,000 jobs, with some of them already under construction in Texas.
However, tech billionaire Musk has been critical of Stargate and took to his own social media platform X, formerly Twitter, to share his thoughts.
In a tweet, Musk wrote: “They don’t actually have the money.”
He later added: “SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority.”
Trump has since responded to these criticisms when asked about it as he signed a series of executive orders.
When asked whether he was bothered by Musk’s words, Trump replied: “No, he hates one of the people in the deal.”
He added: “People in the deal are very, very smart people. But Elon – one of the people, he happens to hate. But I have certain hatreds of people,too.”
Elon Musk has been critical of the AI project (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
When asked whether Musk’s claims that they didn’t have the money was true, Trump responded with: “I don’t know if they do, but, you know, they’re putting up the money. The government’s not putting up anything. And they’re putting up money. They’re very rich people, so I hope they do. And I mean, Elon doesn’t like one of those people.”
In statements made by OpenAI and Softbank, it was revealed that the likes of Microsoft and NVIDIA are also partners in the project.
OpenAI kick-started an AI race amongst other tech giants after it launched ChatGPT in 2022.
The chatbot answers users’ questions and, after its launch, the industry saw a spike in investments in AI.
Before leaving the White House, Biden had put rules in place to restrict the exports of AI chips, arguing that it would help the US to control the industry.
And it looks like this project is going to see some serious investments – in fact, the companies behind Stargate have said they plan to invest $500 billion in the next four years.
Microsoft has also said that it intends to invest $80 billion.
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President Donald Trump has been busy since his January 20 inauguration, but alongside having his Diet Coke button reinstalled and raking in the profits of his meme coin, he’s been signing a slew of executive orders. There are almost too many to count, with everything from DEI initiatives to the classified JFK assassination files, birthright citizenship to the death penalty poised to get an overhaul.
It seems like a lot of work to have delivered so many executive orders in such a short space of time, but according to some accusations, President Trump might’ve had a helping hand.
Economist Robert Reich took to X and claimed that at least 16 executive orders have been pulled from the controversial Project 2025 playbook.
First produced by the Heritage Foundation ahead of Ronald Reagan taking office in 1981, Project 2025 is a supposed Republican ‘wish list’ that comes from the prominent right-wing think tank.
President Trump has been busy signing executive orders since his January 20 inauguration (Christopher Furlong / Staff / Getty)
The Heritage Foundation laid out proposals for Trump’s first term, later boasting that nearly two-thirds of them were adopted by the White House. Project 2025 was released in April 2023 and flew under the radar until the Democrats drew attention to it under Kamala Harris. There was a “Stop Project 2025 Task Force” that included a tip line encouraging people to keep the Democrats up to date on what the Heritage Foundation was up to.
Trump claimed he knew nothing about Project 2025, but for some, it isn’t adding up.
The Independent writes: “Many of Trump’s orders are difficult to read and understand, marked by errors and stilted language, observers have noted, which could be a problem for Trump if challenged in court, as many of them are likely to be.”
As for allegations that Trump has been using artificial intelligence to write some of his executive orders, appellate lawyer Raffi Melkonian posted on BlueSky and said that a description of the Gulf of Mexico that was written in an order renaming it as Gulf of America was ‘absolutely written by AI’. He went on to joke: “Write a description of the Gulf of Mexico for idiots.”
Slate journalist and legal expert Mark Joseph Stern posted elsewhere on BlueSky, saying that Trump was hoping to avoid the “sloppy legal work that plagued his first administration.” Instead, Stern said: “This is poor, slipshod work obviously assisted by AI.”
There’s also a mention of his executive order declaring there are only two genders, highlighting the questionable science that gender is determined at conception. The particular phrase, “Person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell,” has been called out as ‘garbled’.
The irony is that these allegations come at a time when Trump himself has pushed for more AI innovation. He’s already signed the “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence” executive order. The POTUS says he wants to eliminate the ‘harmful’ orders put in place by the Biden Administration that were keeping a close eye on AI policies.
In a government fact sheet, the White House writes: “President Trump is fulfilling his promise to revoke Joe Biden’s dangerous Executive Order that hinders AI innovation and imposes onerous and unnecessary government control over the development of AI.”
