By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-12-05 17:32:03 | Updated at 2024-12-22 22:07:30
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The View's Ana Navarro-Cárdenas blamed ChatGPT for her embarrassing blunder in claiming President Woodrow Wilson pardoned a fictional man named 'Hunter deButts.'
Navarro-Cárdenas, 52, took to X on Monday to defend President Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter Biden - a move he repeatedly said he wouldn't do.
She claimed the 28th president pardoned deButts, who described as his brother-in-law. No records show Wilson had a relative under that name, an online sleuth discovered when he went on a deep dive on X.
Despite a Community Note being adding to her post saying saying there was 'no evidence Wilson had a brother-in-law named "Hunter DeButts,"' the controversial host did not delete or edit the post.
A day later, she finally responded, writing: 'Hey Twitter sleuths, thanks for taking the time to provide context. Take it up with Chat GPT...'
Her post included a screenshot of the popular AI system, showing it stating that Wilson pardoned 'Hunter deButts, his brother-in-law, after he was court-martialed during World War I for military misconduct.'
AI chat systems are known to be wildly fictitious at times as they do not fact check answers, bur rather pull from all the information on the internet - real or true.
ChatGPT is estimated to be around 89 percent accurate, according to Multi-task Language Understanding.
The View 's Ana Navarro-Cárdenas blamed ChatGPT for her embarrassing blunder in claiming President Woodrow Wilson pardoned a fictional man named 'Hunter deButts'
Navarro-Cárdenas, 52, took to X on Monday to defend President Joe Biden pardoning his son, Hunter Biden
A day later, she finally responded, writing : 'Hey Twitter sleuths, thanks for taking the time to provide context. Take it up with Chat GPT...'
AI chatbots can experience a 'hallucination,' in which they generate false or misleading answers, according to IBM.
The technology company recommends that humans 'validate' information given to them by AI chatbots to make sure it's correct rather.
This is not the first time Navarro-Cárdenas has used ChatGPT to reinforce her political opinions.
On November 30, she posted another screenshot from ChatGPT about Charles Kushner, who President-elect Donald Trump nominated to be the Ambassador of France.
The host's excuse for the deButt debacle only seemed to anger fellow journalists, who expressed surprise that the talk-show host would rely on AI for her facts.
'The funniest thing isn't that ChapGPT hallucinated a Woodrow Wilson pardon. It's that a robot spat out the name "Hunter deButts" and none of this sounded out of place to Ana Navarro, a supposed political insider and commentator. Not even a curious follow-up Google search,'' T. Becket Adams, a columnist for The Hill, wrote on X.
'I like to think that if Siri told me Calvin Coolidge once pardoned "Amanda Hugginkiss," I'd do a quick follow-up because I have never heard this before,' he continued.
'It's a marvel that such chronically incurious people tend to secure tenure on cable news opinion shows,' Adams added in a follow-up post.
No records show Woodrow Wilson had a relative named Hunter deButts
Fellow journalist Glenn Greenwald found her blunder hilarious, writing on X: 'This Hunter deButts thing is really one of the all-time funniest things to happen in media and on this platform in awhile. That she works for ABC News makes it even better.'
Navarro's original argument came after Biden made a shocking announcement Sunday night that he would issue a presidential pardon for Hunter, calling his prosecution on gun and tax-evasion charges 'selective' and 'unfair.'
The bombshell U-turn decision will see Hunter get pardoned for any crimes he may have committed 'from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.'
Biden, himself, said as recently as June that unlike Trump - who has outright said he wants to pardon January 6 rioters - he wouldn't pardon Hunter.
'From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,' Biden said in a statement.
The president claimed that people are 'almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form... It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.'
Biden raged against 'several of my political opponents in Congress' who he claimed made the charges a public spectacle 'to attack me and oppose my election.'
He added that the plea deal Hunter, who has since pledged to 'make amends' for his crimes, agreed to with the Department of Justice was a 'fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter's cases.' But that deal fell through at the last minute under political pressure.
Navarro's original argument came after Biden made a shocking announcement Sunday night that he would issue a presidential pardon for Hunter, calling his prosecution 'selective' and 'unfair'
'No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because is my son - and that is wrong,' the president continued.
Biden said that there had been an effort to 'break Hunter' and destroy what he says is five-and-a-half years of sobriety.
'In trying to break Hunter, they've tried to break me - and there's no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.'
The president didn't shy away from pointing out that the love of his son guided his decision-making, but stressed that he was being 'fair-minded.'
'Here's the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice - and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further.'
