Meet Daquan Neal, Democratic Candidate for Ohio House of Representatives District 39

You've said you wanted to bring a different voice to the State House.

What do you think is missing, and what kind of leader would you be?

One of the first things that I think about when I talk about like bringing a voice, I think about a piece of legislation that was coming in through, uh, the House of Representatives.

Can't remember specifically what bill number it was, but I remember the bill and its intentions were.

And, it, its intentions were to prevent the government, the state legislature, from being able to regulate AI data usage, uh, well, AI usage-

Mm-hmm

... for 10 years.

And so-

Okay

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they wanted to s- constrain us from being able to regulate any sort of industry that wanted to manipulate AI, uh, especially when we were giving these sweetheart deals to data centers.

We got almost 250 of them here.

So I'm like, "Oh, we see the correlation that's going on here."

Mm.

And realizing that there are people who are making these rules and regulations, and who are trying to forbid us from regulating AI usage, who don't even understand what AI is.

So I, the, to, I don't-- I hate to take this dig, or I hate to take this shot, but I have to because this is something that blew my mind.

So my opponent was a good example.

Uh, my primary opponent, I didn't see that they did this 'cause they didn't really put in that much effort.

But my Republican opponent, uh, they just recently went in and updated their website because they ChatGPT'd, uh, his bio, his background.

And the reason we know that he ChatGPT'd is because for us who know what ChatGPT looks like, they put those hyphens in there where punctuation mark is supposed to go, like a comma or a period.

So it had those hyphens, those big hyphens in there.

They just copied and pasted it directly on his website.

And so now mind you, it wasn't his, it wasn't him who did it, like he, it was the Republican State Party that made his website for him.

And so I'm going and I'm just checking it out.

I'm like, "Wait a minute.