Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says her staff used AI only for "spellcheck" in an amendment summary for the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, and denies the technology was used to write the amendment text itself. "NO Legislation is ever drafted with AI," she wrote on X.
The dispute began after accounts on X shared screenshots of an amendment summary that appeared to include a Claude response. Luna initially posted that "staff used AI to correct a draft text and didn't edit," but later edited her post to clarify the AI was used for "spell/grammar check the amendment SUMMARY, not the actual amendment text itself." She added that all House bill text comes from the House Legislative Council, which is prohibited from using AI.
The incident comes amid growing reports of AI chatbot references appearing in places where they shouldn't be. Judges have caught lawyers using AI to draft legal filings with fake citations, city officials in Brazil unknowingly approved an ordinance written with ChatGPT, and Arizona state representative Alexander Kolodin has told The Verge he has used ChatGPT to write state-level legislation.