A litany of “weird typos,” formatting errors and clunky text can be found among the slew of executive orders that President Donald Trump has been feverishly signing since taking office. Is that because of their sheer volume, or is something else at play? “This is poor, slipshod work,” wrote Slate’s legal correspondent Mark Joseph Stern in a Bluesky post calling out the potential use of A.I., as noted by Futurism. Among the evidence: In one order that would open up previously protected Alaskan land to oil drilling, several bullet points were all numbered one; while innocuous-sounding at first, Futurism previously documented similar numbering errors in a series of A.I.-generated articles (and fake authors) published by Sports Illustrated in 2023. Then there’s the order where Trump renames the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. Texas-based lawyer Raffi Melkonian asked ChatGPT to “write a description of the Gulf of Mexico for idiots,” and the results were a nearly identical paragraph. The White House did not respond to Futurism’s request for comment on the matter, but if the turnover in Trump’s first administration is any indication, it’s only a matter of time until international diplomacy is being led by Secretary of State Siri.
