The AI chatbot ChatGPT served as an unlikely battleground for a war of words between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s spokesperson and one of the nationalist premier’s fiercest foreign critics.
In his latest slap at Budapest, German MEP Daniel Freund asked the app — that rapidly churns out essays, poems or computing code on command — to write a rap song about corruption in Hungary.
It’s a sensitive matter in the Twitter, which slid to last place among bloc members in a Transparency International corruption ranking that alleged “political elites” misused state and EU funds.
“From football clubs to luxury castles; Orban’s empire is built on scams and hustles; It’s time to clean up, it’s time to fight; We won’t back down until Orban’s out of sight,” said the app according to a tweet by Freund on Monday.
In a swift reply, government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs posted on Twitter a ChatGPT rap about the German which called him a “fighter for democracy” whose “agenda is shining bright”.
The response proved that ChatGPT “is nothing more than a bullshit generator,” said Kovacs.
“Honestly, I was quite impressed how it put widely known accusations against the Orban government into a rap text,” Freund told AFP on Tuesday.
“I wanted to see what (the chatbot) can do – and what not”, Freund quipped, while describing Kovacs’s reaction as “an own goal”.
Kovacs did not reply to a request for comment by AFP.
