Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT After a string of marriages and innumerable affairs, former UK prime minister Boris Johnson has come clean about his new squeeze. "I love ChatGPT," the blond-mopped Brexiteer 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 …
Bad news for the users of AI:
From a Guardian article, quite long but worth reading
"those who used AI more frequently scored lower on critical thinking. (As he notes, to date his work only provides evidence for a correlation between the two: it’s possible that people with lower critical thinking abilities are more likely to trust AI, for example.)"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology
I make no comment or judgements concerning Boris Johnson's 'critical thinking' skills.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.)
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...
"In a damning report, the Privileges Committee said the former PM had committed repeated offences with his Partygate denials."
It was awful. At first he said (in parliament) that there were no parties (that would have breached COVID isolation laws at the time), then when confronted with evidence he said there were parties but he didn't know about them at the time, when presented with more evidence he said he was invited to the parties but declined. Then the photos came out of him at the parties.
The only person who got reprimanded at the time, was an MP who called Johnson a liar (quite actually). That MP was suspended from parliament because apparently you aren't allowed to use the specific word "liar" in the House of Commons.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the brown poor people are why you don't have any money. Ask Michelle Mone about that.
Wealth inequality, that's what you need to be thinking about, not skin colour or place of birth.
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.
Not for the first time. With ChatGPT though, whilst he could get instructions in Pole Dancing, there wouldn't be the opportunity for a 1:1 coaching on an actual Pole, whilst also recieiving IT lessions
https://noai.duckduckgo.com?q=boris+johnson+pole+dancer+it
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Most of the EU lies being parroted by the likes of Farage and friends were created by Johnson during the period when he was exiled to Brussels as a journalist because of his fabrications
It was felt he couldn't do much damage there. How wrong the editors were...
Don't forget the (mis)quote about throwing stones over the wall in order to hear the smashing glass. There's a mentality which revels in sowing discord and breaking things - it's usually pathological and enjoys hurting people as much as damaging property
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