WASHINGTON, April 4 -- A prominent political commentator has suggested that the Trump administration may have used artificial intelligence to shape its proposed tariff policy, drawing widespread attention online.

Steven Bonnell, known as Destiny on streaming and political platforms, claimed in a tweet that the tariff plans were so poorly constructed they resembled outputs from a basic AI tool like ChatGPT.

"I think they asked ChatGPT to calculate the tariffs from other countries, which is why the tariffs make absolutely no f***ing sense," he wrote on social media.

Destiny argued that the tariffs appear to be based on a crude formula: dividing the United States' trade deficit with a country by its total imports, or applying a flat 10 pe...