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Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate
Truth Search AI appears to rely heavily on conservative outlet Fox News to answer even the most basic questions.
In 2024, WIRED published an article detailing how Perplexity had been scraping parts of websites that developers did not want it to access, in violation of the widely accepted web standard known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol. I expect the bot to fawn over Trump, but it gives a relatively tepid review of his presidency thus far, describing “sweeping executive action,” but negative approval ratings “with particular voter discontent on the economy and inflation.” Some of these more liberal-leaning answers cite Associated Press articles that have been republished on the Fox News website. But the limits of Truth Search AI’s exclusively conservative source pool come into focus when I press it on Trump’s well-documented connection to financier-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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