I didn’t write my book

It has been an unusual month. In the last four weeks, I have gone from being called ‘Matt Badloss’, after finishing behind the Greens in the Gorton and Denton elections, to ‘MattGPT’, basically, many of my critics claim that parts of my new book were not written by me but by artificial intelligence.

Most of my critics, I truly believe, have taken small mistakes to try and undermine the larger argument about how demographic change is damaging Britain.

While I’ll admit that my new MattGPT moniker is funny – it makes even my mum phone up and ask ‘What’s ChatGPT?’, unfortunately for my critics the bottom line isn’t true.

Let me explain what really happened and how this book ended up being the most controversial, best-selling of all my books, now that it has reached number two on Amazon’s bestseller list – after the children’s book about the Easter chick.

On March 17, I released the trailer for my book Social Suicide: Immigration, Islam, Identitywhich was quickly viewed by half a million people. The title is a deliberate allusion to Arthur Koestler’s The Destruction of the Nationa collection of leftist essays, published in 1963, and the text of Douglas Murray’s excellent book. The Great Death of Europepublished a decade or more ago.

The book, aided greatly by my 94,000 Substack subscribers and appearances on the podcast circuit, began to slowly climb the ranks. People started talking about my argument – that we are losing our country. That in 2063, according to my estimates, the English whites will be few in this country; by 2070 the foreign born will be the majority, and by 2100 the proportion of people who follow Islam will go from one in 17 to one in four.

At this point, the only criticism, surprisingly, came from the ultra-right wing, where many increasingly radicalized young men began to criticize the book as ‘too easy’. This was strange, I thought, when I thought I was using the book to call for an immediate end to mass immigration, from the European Convention on Human Rights, the deportation of illegal immigrants and criminals from other countries and the rollback of the ‘Boriswave’, which brought millions of low-wage, non-European immigrants into Britain without democratic consent.

But then all hell broke loose. On the other side of the political spectrum, an anonymous left-wing activist named Andy Twelves has compiled a list of what he says are factual errors in my book, as well as misspellings, typos, and footnotes. Taken together, this led him to say that large parts of the book were written by artificial intelligence.

This quickly went viral, the humorous moniker MattGPT was born, and Twelve’s complaints were received uncritically by many viewers – even if many of them were misleading or wrong.

There is no doubt that this book contains several errors and typos – which I regret and are currently correcting. It is one of the potential pitfalls of deliberately choosing to publish a book outside of the emerging publishing industry.

For example, I mistakenly describe Boris Johnson as “opposition” when he promised the British people, in 2019, that he would “reduce the total number” of immigrants. In fact, he was already the prime minister.

Some of my historical texts are also incomplete. For example, in the book I am writing, the great Roman orator Cicero said: ‘The country should start with those who are close to us.’ As a ‘scientist of the world’ in Cicero is confirmed to Times A few days ago, what Cicero said was: ‘The main duty of the state is to protect its citizens’.

I also misquote Sir Roger Scruton saying: ‘A nation that cannot distinguish its friends from its enemies or extend hospitality to those who despise its way of life, is a nation that has lost the will to live.’

Having checked my notes, this is clearly a misrepresentation from Scruton’s The Need of Nationsin which he warned of the difference between ‘those who deserve to benefit from the sacrifices my member calls to me, and those who intervene.’ But I missed it.

My critics also took issue with things like citing a report from Bradford that said ‘only four out of 28 pupils’ at one school spoke English as their first language, which I said was from the BBC. Actually, this is from another part of the Times Educational Supplement and go Daily Mailwhich noted that ‘only four out of 417 children spoke English as their first language’ at a primary school in Bradford. You get the drift.

Unfortunately, these statements about ChatGPT were further reinforced by my inclusion of references to ChatGPT in the footnotes, on the details of how immigration is rapidly changing classrooms in England.

To be perfectly honest, I didn’t think twice about it. Every leading academic, journalist and data analyst uses artificial intelligence to analyze data and if they say they don’t, they’re lying. It’s become a valuable tool and as long as you’re checking the information through official databases, like I did, then you’re in good shape.

But there is a big difference between using AI as a research tool and saying it was used to write a book. It’s like saying when you use a calculator, you don’t do math, it’s obviously a joke. So, I stand by all the numbers and demographics (peer-reviewed) in this book.

On Friday, I took part in a GB News interview with Andy Twelves and he asked me to name the main people who have analyzed my views on Britain’s future citizens. I couldn’t tell him this because peer review is inherently anonymous. Twelve would have known this if he had ever written a book or done a major academic study. He hasn’t done anything yet. My anonymous reviewers know who I am and I thank them.

And there are many things that critics can get wrong. For example, Twelves criticizes my claim that ‘In Leicester, Luton, Slough, and the rest of London, the majority of primary school students’ first language is no longer English’, accusing me of being ‘statistically illiterate’.

I went back to look at the Ministry of Education numbers. The percentage of primary school pupils who do not speaking English as their first language is 53 per cent in Luton, 59 per cent in Leicester and Slough, 65 per cent in Tower Hamlets and 72 per cent in Newham.

While the left may not think this is a problem, I do. However, it’s a matter of opinion, not something that can be shut down because the left doesn’t want to talk about it.

Similarly, my critics say that my argument that teachers are struggling with the fact that many people are moving in the classroom is nonsense. Even the Bell Foundation, in testimony to parliament, recognizes the problems and challenges that many teachers report when dealing with multiple languages ​​in the classroom.

On the left we almost pretend that everything is fine; but I don’t think so. For example, the British people have been forced to spend £243 million in recent years on translation services in the NHS. How is this right, or how is it fair? If you come to England you should learn and speak English.

The important thing, I think, is that we can have a debate about what is happening in Britain, whereas many of my critics, I truly believe, have taken it upon themselves to try and undermine the larger debate about how demographic change is damaging Britain.

Although I would have asked my long-suffering family and friends who watched me write The Destruction of the Nation four months in the making, before a debate with Andy Twelves on GB News, just for fun, I asked artificial intelligence software what it was thinking.

Another, called GPTZero, said: ‘We are very confident that this text is completely human’, estimating that only 3 percent of the text was generated by AI. Because AI detection programs are notoriously unreliable because they are habitual overstate The impact of this AI is something.

Another, ironically, pointed to human errors and typos as another reason why the book could not be written by artificial intelligence, as well as its use of a “constant thesis”, “a clear position of opinion”, “emotional language”, “a sharp voice”, “repeat your repetition clearly” a task that AI cannot repeat over the entire manuscript.’

It is true that my critics will not believe me. But I really don’t care. Because what I also suspect is that some millions of people can see what is happening in silence.

The Destruction of the Nationas I say, it has risen to number two in the Amazon charts, sitting alongside the likes of Jamie Oliver and Harry and Meghan. It is, by far, my biggest selling book and is clearly connecting with thousands of people.

It sold somewhere around 12,000 copies in just one week and I’m still touring in Britain. If it wasn’t for the book about the Easter chick, it would be a bestseller on Amazon. Although one funny critic replied: ‘You must be used to finishing second by now’.