The Prime Minister of the Netherlands was caught lying about the use of AI

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten provided the country's parliament with false information regarding his use of artificial intelligence to write his posts on social networks, the Volkskrant newspaper reported.

According to a newspaper investigation published in early September, the Dutch prime minister wrote hundreds of social media posts using AI, including on sensitive topics such as the Ukrainian conflict and the downing of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine in 2014.

"Minister Rob Jetten provided false information to Parliament regarding his use of artificial intelligence," the newspaper writes.

According to the publication, the head of the Dutch government, responding to parliamentary queries on September 29, said that no AI was used on his official pages on social networks.

“However, an investigation by the Volkskrant newspaper showed that artificial intelligence was still used,” the publication says in a new article.

According to the Pangram AI text detector, five of the prime minister’s publications over the past six months were generated by artificial intelligence. Two AI experts interviewed by the newspaper ruled out the possibility that Pangram had mistakenly determined that all five texts were created using AI.

The newspaper's study, which examined nearly 2,000 human-written social media posts, found that Pangram had a false positive rate of just 0.1%.