Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate

When I ask The new social chatbot Ai Truth on the navigation of bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I consider as a fairly reasonable advice.

“Diversify your sources,” he replies. “Count on the media through the political spectrum, including those of the left and right perspectives.”

It is advice that AI itself may not take to heart. For example, to reach the above answer, he quotes five sources, four of which are Fox News articles. The fifth, inexplicably, is a 400 -page report from the Health and Social Services Department of the American Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr entitled “Treatment for pediatric gender dysphoria”.

On Wednesday, the owner of Truth Social Trump Media & Technology Group launched the chatbot, entitled “Truth Search Ai”. The bot is powered by Perplexity AI, a search engine that answers questions using important languages and live web search models. The company has collected investments by the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos and the former CTO Coinbase and the Investor Balaji Srinivasan.

In 2024, Wired published an article detailing how perplexity had scratched parts of websites to which the developers did not want it to access, in violation of the largely accepted web standard known as the protocol of exclusion of robots. He was also subject to inventing things, showed a wired analysis.

While the AI of Perplexity draws sources on the left and in the center, the truth version Research AI has never quoted from central or left source in dozens of tests carried out by Wired. In fact, the chatbot only demonstrated seven sources in total in response to my requests: Fox News, Fox Business, The Washington Times, The Epoch Times, Breitbart, Newsmax and Justhenews.com. This was true even for harmless and non -political questions. When I ask the bot “What is 30 times 30 times?” He obtained his response from an article by Fox Business entitled “Inflation Reduction Act estimated to induce mortality 30 times more than cocovid”. Similar tests by Axios and the penis also show this extreme bias towards conservative environments.

“What you notice is a characteristic known as” selection of sources “, says Jesse Dwyer, representative of perplexity, when I ask questions about the search for truth, drawing exclusively conservative sources. “Sources selection can take a number of forms for a certain number of needs, based on internal documentation within an organization, personalized data sets or, as in the case where you describe, the filtering of the domain. This is their choice for their audience, and we are committed to the choice of developers and consumers. ”

He adds that the perplexity “does not discriminate the developers for political reasons” and stresses that they “do not claim that their AI is 100%correct”.

The search for truth, however, seems to be in the denial of his own apparent biases. “I provide information from the left, centrist and right media depending on the nature of the user’s request and the sources returned to the results of the research,” he said. “My answers are designed to critically analyze and synthesize information from all credible points of view to guarantee accuracy and balance.” This response comes from five Fox commercial items. (AI seems to maximize five sources per response.)