Two days after the People’s National Party (PNP) launched its manifesto, the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is blasting it as being generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

The charge against the PNP manifesto was led by Kamina Johnson Smith, the JLP’s Achievements and Manifesto Committee chairman, and expounded by Dr Dana Morris Dixon.

“So, as I read the manifesto, and I put on my hat as a former lecturer at UWI, who used to have to mark master’s theses, I had to wonder why it sounded so much like what we already do. It could just be that you cut and paste,” said Morris Dixon, who was armed with a copy of what the ChatGPT prompt gave to her.

“Now, I’m a big proponent of using artificial intelligence, and so, as I thought through it, I realised that this must have used AI, and so, I asked Chat GPT, I prompted Chat GPT to write an education plan for Jamaica, and when the results came, it sounded just like the [PNP’s] manifesto; the education section sounded just like that,” she explained.

She noted that it could have been a ChatGPT 5 software that was cut off in October 2024, and the training data that was in the manifesto was from that period.

“That’s why it looks so much like what we’ve already articulated, and what we are doing,” she said.

In terms of analysing the various sections, she said it sounded like a “choose the Jamaica Labour Party manifesto or indeed, a choose the Andrew Holness administration manifesto”.

She added: “And I say it’s indeed a Love Letter, but it’s a Love Letter to the policies of the Jamaica Labour Party.”

With two weeks left before the general election on September 3, the JLP has yet to deliver its manifesto but promises its launch soon.

At the PNP’s launch of the PNP manifesto, dubbed Mission Jamaic Love: A Pledge to Country, on Tuesday evening, the plan was said to be based on the pillars of justice for all, access to quality education, modern infrastructure, agriculture and food security, innovation and industry, care for the vulnerable, accountability in governance, land and housing, opportunity for youth, violence prevention and environmental resilience.

For monolingual Jamaicans who embrace their native language, Jamaican Creole, popularly called Patwa, the PNP manifesto is scripted in that vernacular for download on Apple Podcast, Amazon Music, SoundCloud Cloud and other streaming platforms.