Predictably, Matt Goodwin's GB News debate was a disaster. He opens with defending the idea "everyone" uses AI tools for research now, and it's entirely legitimate. So the book is undeniably a product of using LLMs on some level. 1/

March 27, 2026 - 22:57 UTC

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Jesus that's the first time I've heard him speak and he's a bigger bellend than I even had in my imagination...let us be clear, artifical 'intelligunce'
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His voice grates so much before you even hear the meanness in his actual words
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Yep just a horrific empty husk of an individual, totally hollowed out by grifting
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This is what happens when being a loud mouthed self-publicist is considered a marker of success. No actual link to insight, competence, character or even adequacy, just unwonted confidence and shameless lying. Impresses our supine journalists and suits the right wing media barons, I suppose.
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He is such a charmless, droning arsehole.
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"AI is a research tool that every academic now uses."

It has been quite a while since we could call Goodwin an academic, but he is so wide of the mark here. Many of them are highly critical and sceptical of LLMs, partly because they produce precisely the kind of content that is in his book
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No-one I knows would ever touch an LLM for any kind of research. It is worse than useless.
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Even if it were true that every academic uses AI now, everyone is responsible for their own work and for making sure it is factual and correct. As is even HE didnt read what AI had written for him
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Does he know any academics or journalists who still talk to him on a social level for longer than it takes to make a polite exit?
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i’m still convinced that MattGPT is a very unethical experiment by the psychology department at his old university that has gone seriously awry
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😆
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"Let's just be clear" we all know what that means.
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To start with, it’s wrong to say that everybody uses AI for their research. I don’t.
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Likewise with data analysts, no one in my team touches them because they know how useless they are (unless you want to make numbers up)
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Tough one for MattGPT. He’s cheated a piece of racist tosh that he demands is taken seriously. The people he’s written it for are unlikely to read it. The people who’ve bothered, mind that it’s a misleading AI botch job.
He seems doomed to a life of perpetual fury and well-deserved mockery.
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He’ll always be mocked, for having the surname Goodwin and turning out to be a Bad Loser after he lost the election. Now he’s made it worse with a bad book.
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Slightly concerned at where he winds up from all this. He just seems like a very unhappy man with a massive chip on his shoulder.
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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What happened in the world that means we even have to tolerate a second of these idiots. In past times they wouldn't have got beyond whinging to their family let alone national exposure. Absolutely grim for everyone
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Whether AI or not, the book was undoubtedly written by a tool...
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Nope, never used AI in my research. Might in the future if it’s appropriate…
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“Let’s be clear” always means bull sh*t incoming
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Yes, what a tool
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Poor Matt - he’s very sad , wonder what’s made him so bitter and hateful ?
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He's a tool who doesn't do his research
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He should have stopped after his first use of the word ‘tool’.
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I don't know anyone who uses AI in their research. Why would you? If you know your field it's quicker to do the work yourself rather than check for all the hallucinated references.
Unless of course you're lazy and aren't interested in your professional reputation.
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As I said to a peer recently, "Why go to all that effort to guess at things we already know the answers to?"

Where do we end up as a society if we pollute our pool of factual knowledge with incorrect statistical guesses?
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I use AI to locate sources. I then verify those before using them. An enhanced Google search, nothing more. Like if I need the email address for a registrar of a university, and the university's website only has a contact form...
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They need a tool that works as well as endnote or zotero without the overhead of installing software or maintaining a database. www.citationwizard.net/ is that tool. Paste in your paper with just in-text citations. It'll find them and give you the references properly formatted.
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Goodwin thin skin would probably be his name 1000 years ago
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Great work Nick
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Hard to believe the guy was employed as a ‘professor’ by any stretch of the imagination. He’s so deranged and probably thinks ‘everyone’ is against him. To be fair, he’s giving ‘everyone’ a good reason to be…abhorrent individual. His narcissism knows no bounds.
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Tit.
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I think Godwin’s attempting to do a “we give £350m to the EU” thing where there’s argument about the substance but it all just means his book gets publicity.
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I cannot think why he might have recently lost an election. I mean, what an outstanding orator. Or is it orifice?

As Cicero once said, "We must not say every mistake is a foolish one, excepting Matt Goodwin". (According to my personal LLM, anyway..)
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Having watched the charmless, chippy, churlish MattGPT© I am at a loss as to why he failed to win over the hearts & votes of the nearly 60% non-white, 40% Muslim & 42% students or graduates residents of Gorton & Denton.
*Statistics courtesy of AI 🤨*
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I’m optimistic about the future! For 60 years I have campaigned - often to no avail - on environmental issues.
But the future is bright, the future is Green, as all those Mohamadens in G and D have opted to save the badgers and to restrict the private car and install LTNs.
What’s not to like?
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Love the way he keeps picking the book up to promote it. Regardless of how much it is being criticised. Clearly thinks his ‘base’ won’t care.
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They won't because hardly any will actually buy it or even try to read it
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Sore loser Matt Goodwin proving he has zero intelligence artificial or otherwise. 😂
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Indeed. And why buy a book you can get AI to write yourself.
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Is MG just lazy or what? He obviously knows better, but still does stuff like this…
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'Everyone' in academia does not use AI tools. That is simply not true. I don't understand what drives this man to continually undermine his own credibility.
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'Everyone'....
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The playground bully's go to claim!

"Everyone thinks you're stupid"
"Everyone is sick of your attitude"
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Given the book seems to be self-published, I’d be surprised if it isn’t print on demand so he can correct it straightaway.
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Indeed, he has so much faith in AI he thinks AI detectors actually work - they don't, they're just other LLMs prompted to look for common grammatical tics that are mainly an artifact of deprecated models. He then rashly presents this as evidence it couldn't possibly be something he did. 2/
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“This is about integrity”

Nobody would say it’s about self-awareness Matt 😂
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Goodwin also freely admits that the quotes indeed aren't real though, promising to correct them "within 48 hours" as if the timeline is relevant here and the physical copies haven't already been printed. Are they going to be pulped then Matt? /3
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‘rhet-O-ric’
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Doesn’t know how to pronounce rhetoric
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Uses sophisticated AI in the manner of software for detecting plagiarism. AI machine confirms that the book was ‘not AI written’. Doesn’t report any material lifted from other sources - even sources that already exist in reports, papers, databases.
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What an absolute Fucktard Goodwin is.
I mean how did he ever "work" as an Academic?
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This part gives the impression that he thinks ChatGPT can peer review him.
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Awww the poor little hamster faced sore-loser. Almost makes you feel sorry for him. Almost…🤣
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If you took the bullshit out of Goodwin, all that would be left is a small pile of dust and a rather unpleasant odour.
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Chapeau 🎩
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Love this 😀
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Different route to get here (and I’m a late arrival compared to you) but it seems like we share some olfactory-based opinions.

That said, I’m quite certain I’m not special and there’s at least several hundred thousand more who agree with you about the Goodwin whiff 🤢
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“Matt GPT” - that was a treat.
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