The View co-host Ana Navarro admitted she relied on information from ChatGPT after she was mocked for sharing false information about presidential pardons in defense of President Biden.
Biden came under fire this week because he granted a sweeping pardon to his son Hunter Biden on Sunday after repeatedly urging him not to do so. Navarro, who identifies as a Republican but is a staunch supporter of Democrats who reliably provide liberal commentary on “The View” and on CNN, pushed back against Biden’s critics.
She wrote on X: “Woodrow Wilson pardoned his brother-in-law, Hunter deButts. Bill Clinton pardoned his brother, Roger. Donald Trump pardoned his daughter’s father-in-law, Charlie Kushner. And just appointed him ambassador to France. Tell me again how Joe Biden is ‘setting a precedent’?”
Navarro’s bizarre claim about Woodrow Wilson’s pardon of a fictional brother-in-law named “Hunter deButts” immediately raised eyebrows. Social media and news channel users quickly Navarro fact-checked before admitting her mistake the next day.
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The View co-host Ana Navarro admitted she relied on ChatGPT for her social media post about presidential pardons. (Screenshot/ABC)
“Hey Twitter sleuths, thanks for taking the time to provide context. Continue with ChatGPT,” Navarro wrote alongside crying, laughing emojis.
She shared a screenshot of the AI chatbot, which appeared to give her the false claim about Woodrow’s pardon.
Navarro’s admission only seemed to give critics more ammunition.
“This Hunter deButts thing is honestly one of the all-time funniest things to happen in the media and on this platform in a while. The fact that she works for ABC News makes it even better,” says journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote on X.
“The funniest thing isn’t that ChapGPT hallucinated a pardon from Woodrow Wilson. It’s that a robot spit out the name “Hunter deButts” and none of this sounded out of place Ana Navarro, an alleged political insider and commentator. Not even a curious follow-up Google search,” National Journalism Center program director T. Becket Adams also wrote.
Navarro wasn’t the only liberal media commentator this week who appeared to rely on fabricated information to defend President Biden.
Esquire removed a column that inaccurately drew a comparison between Hunter Biden and George HW Bush’s son. (Bettmann/Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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The liberal magazine Esquire was forced to remove a column it published Tuesday by liberal pundit Charles P. Pierce after he falsely claimed that President George HW Bush had pardoned his son Neil Bush.
“No one defines Poppy Bush’s presidency by his son’s struggle or the pardons he issued as he left the White House. The moral: please keep your mouth shut about Hunter Biden,” Pierce wrote.
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