Mario Voigt cannot understand the excitement – and it could probably soon become significantly larger. The Thuringian Prime Minister is currently being criticizedafter it became known that a guest article in the daily newspaper The worldwhich appeared under his name, was largely created by artificial intelligence (AI). In the meantime, CDU politician Voigt replied that he could only encourage everyone to use AI as a tool.
The Prime Minister has apparently been following this credo for a long time: whether at the commemoration ceremony for the victims of National Socialism, in an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung or on the occasion of the mourning ceremony for his deceased predecessor – a large part of Mario Voigt’s texts and speeches from his current term in office were apparently largely generated by AI. This is what our evaluation shows.
When KI remembers the Nazi victims
“It was the result of a way of thinking that gave up humanity bit by bit – in words, in decisions, in indifference.” With these words, Thuringia’s Prime Minister Mario Voigt described the organized mass murder in the Nazi concentration camps on January 29, 2025. It is a passage that has a revealing effect. Because the speech that Voigt gives on this day on the occasion of the act of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism seems to be the result of thinking that is completely devoid of humanity: According to the analysis tool Pangram, Voigt’s speech is 100 percent AI-generated. The GPTZero program comes to the conclusion that the text was created “with a high degree of certainty” by artificial intelligence.
Voigt’s speech about the Holocaust and its victims contains numerous passages that are typical of AI-generated language. These include repeated negatives and both generic and difficult to grasp language images. “Auschwitz was not the work of an invented monster. It was the work of people who thought their actions were consistent with a higher goal,” the speech says. Elsewhere, Voigt describes the survivors of the concentration camp with the words “Their eyes were empty and at the same time infinitely deep”. This and other sentences about the Auschwitz survivors can also be found word for word in a speech by Voigt a few months later on the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. His government spokeswoman did not respond to our question as to whether it was true that Voigt’s Nazi memorial speech was generated entirely by AI.
And artificial intelligence also seems to have played a crucial role in numerous other speeches that Voigt has given since taking office. An analysis of Voigt’s speeches and newspaper articles published under the Prime Minister’s name shows a clear picture. Of the eleven speeches analyzed, the analysis tool Pangram only recognized no evidence in one text that the text was created using AI.
Pangram is considered one of the most reliable programs for recognizing texts generated by AI, but individual analyzes can still be incorrect. In the overall picture, however, there is a clear trend in Voigt’s texts. In nine of the eleven speeches, the analysis program comes to an AI share of well over 50 percent. According to the analysis, three speeches appear to be completely AI-generated. This also includes the Prime Minister’s New Year’s address. The GPTZero program also sees strong evidence of artificial intelligence as an author in a large part of Voigt’s texts. For comparison: When analyzing 41 texts from Voigt’s current and former colleagues, the analysis tool Pangram came up with a significantly lower AI probability. For Mario Voigt’s texts the value was ten times higher.
When asked, Voigt’s spokeswoman wrote to us that the State Chancellery uses AI as a supporting tool: “The systems are used to support the creation of speeches, texts and contributions.” They would not evaluate AI as a replacement for human work, but as a contemporary aid.
Voigt’s guest contributions: Hallucinated researcher quotes in the FAZ?
The analysis results are even clearer for the texts that appeared as guest articles by Voigt in various newspapers: for three out of four texts, Pangram achieved an AI share of 100 percent.
This includes a guest article that will be published in August 2025 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung appeared. It warns of the dangers of smartphones and the Internet for children and designs a digital protection program. “It’s about more than education. It’s about dignity,” it says. However, the text does not explain how dignity plays a role in digital child protection.
The text also quotes three scientists to support the article’s thesis: the psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the neurobiologist Gerald Hüther and the neuroscientist Manfred Spitzer. We were unable to verify any of the quotes attributed to them in the text in their books or online posts. When asked, Manfred Spitzer wrote to us that he did not believe that he had written the sentence attributed to him so literally. The Thuringian State Chancellery did not answer our question about where the quoted passages came from.
A central problem with artificial intelligence is that hallucinations are sometimes generated in texts, i.e. content that sounds logical on the surface but is fictitious. This also includes made-up quotes that are actually attributed to existing people.
Despite guidelines: AI use not marked
The fact that AI was involved in a text that appeared as a guest article by Voigt in the daily newspaper The world The State Chancellery has already admitted that it was published. “Of course, we also use modern digital tools in our work, including AI applications,” said a spokeswoman Daily Mirror. After the scandal, Voigt even confirmed the approach: Having his thoughts put into writing by software was a proof of the quality of modern Thuringian politics. However, the use of AI was not identified in the newspaper.
A sample service instruction from the Thuringian Digital Ministry is intended to provide orientationunder what conditions authorities can use AI in their communication. It says that it is generally permissible to use artificial intelligence when formulating speeches or guest contributions. At the same time, the service instructions state that it should be clearly stated upon publication if a text was essentially created using AI. Authorities should also disclose which AI system they have used. There are no such references to be found in any of Voigt’s newspaper texts; also in his speeches. When we asked about these contradictions with the government’s own guidelines, Voigt’s government spokeswoman gave an evasive answer. There is no general labeling requirement for AI texts. The application is based on the service instructions mentioned.
AI in the State Chancellery: We demand transparency
In order to provide clarity about how Thuringia’s state government and Prime Minister Voigt allows speeches and other texts to be produced using artificial intelligence, we have made several requests under the Freedom of Information Act: both for internal communication about the texts and for corresponding guidelines. Because if it is unclear which statements a politician actually makes and which were generated by a machine, ethical boundaries become blurred.
April 2025: The requiem for the long-time Thuringian Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel takes place in Erfurt Cathedral. Hundreds of people came to pay tribute to the deceased and hear Mario Voigt’s speech there: “What remains of such a life? Not the chronology. Not the offices, but the attitude with which they were carried,” he says and seems to feel closely connected to his predecessor: “We had a telephone conversation in January of this year. He gave me ideas for Thuringia. I am aware: I am not just taking on the office of a predecessor, but in the legacy of a claim.” The AI recognition tool also works with this speech.
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