Jin Joong-kwon mocks Lee for citing Gemini: 'Is AI his Choi Soon-sil?'

Jin Joong-kwon, a former professor at Dongyang University, mocked President Lee Jae Myung for sharing a response from the AI chatbot Gemini to defend having investigation agency chiefs attend Cabinet meetings, asking on social media whether "Lee's Choi Soon-sil is Gemini."

According to TV Chosun, Jin wrote on his Facebook page, "Is Lee Jae Myung's Choi Soon-sil Gemini?" and added, "Why not just ask it to write his speeches while he's at it."

The remarks drew a pointed parallel to the scandal during the Park Geun-hye administration, when Choi Soon-sil — later known as Choi Seo-won after a legal name change — was found to have received presidential speeches in advance. Jin was satirizing Lee's use of an AI-generated response to push back against criticism over a government policy.

The controversy began Wednesday, when Lee posted on X under the heading "I asked Gemini."

In the post, Lee shared Gemini's response to counter criticism that having the prosecutor general and the chief of the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency attend Cabinet meetings was inappropriate.

The AI's response characterized arguments against allowing investigation agency chiefs to attend Cabinet meetings as "unconstitutional overreach" that denied the president's authority to supervise the executive branch.

Opposition figures criticized Lee for relying on an AI chatbot to justify his governance decisions.

People Power Party lawmaker Park Soo-young pushed back, saying she had posed the same question to Gemini and received a different answer.

Park said that when she asked Gemini to assess arguments for excluding the prosecutor general and the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency chief from Cabinet meetings, the chatbot replied that while it would be difficult to conclude their attendance was outright illegal, concerns about the independence and political neutrality of investigative agencies were also reasonable.