Melania Trump: One of her statements about husbands may have been written by AI, report claims

After former US President Donald Trump was indicted with 34 felony counts of falsification of business records in March 2023, his wife, Melania Trump, remained notably silent. She was even absent from his post-arraignment speech at their Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach.

After days of speculation about her opinion on the matter, and the state of their marriage, on 9 April she was photographed sitting at a roped-off table at Mar-A-Lago with her husband during Easter brunch. She tweeted 'Happy Easter!' to her 2.2 million followers alongside an image of a pink rose.

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Melania Trump finally issues a statement

The former First Lady finally issued a rare, yet 'cryptic' statement a few weeks later. Melania’s office tweeted on Tuesday 11 April:

News organisations have made assumptions about the former first lady’s stance on subjects that are personal, professional and political over the past few weeks. In these articles, unnamed sources are cited to bolster the author’s claims.

We ask readers to exercise caution and good judgement when determining whether or not stories concerning the former first lady are accurate, particularly when they fail to cite Mrs Trump as a source of information.

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Was Melania's statement written by A.I.?

Controversially, Slate reported that GPTZero, an A.I. detector, says Melania's statement is 'likely' to have been written by A.I. A different detector, ZeroGPT, found there is a 63% chance that it was computer-created.

According to Slate, the statement contains a lot of filler text and the syntax points to it being machine-generated. The publication notes that most public relations statements such as this tend to 'avoid employing book-report tropes like dictionary definitions and random lists of categories'.

However, conversely, the detector Crossplag found the text only has a 15% chance of being computer-generated.

Questions about the originality of the statement are perhaps not unfounded. Melania was once famously accused of plagiarising a speech made by former First Lady Michelle Obama. Melania's speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention in 2016 had many pointing out the similarities with Michelle’s 2008 convention speech.

Sources used:

Forbes: 'Melania Trump Issues Cryptic First Statement After Trump’s Indictment'

Slate: 'First Melania Statement Since Trump Indictment Is Black Hole of Nonmeaning, May Have Been Written by a Chatbot'

BBC: 'US election: Melania Trump 'plagiarised' Michelle Obama'