{"id":58480,"date":"2025-08-10T05:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58480\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T05:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:33:07","slug":"truth-socials-new-ai-chatbot-is-donald-trumps-media-diet-incarnate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58480\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth Social\u2019s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump\u2019s Media Diet Incarnate"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I ask the new Truth Social<\/a> AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty reasonable advice.<\/p>\n

\u201cDiversify your sources,\u201d it responds. \u201cRely on news outlets across the political spectrum, including those from both left-leaning and right-leaning perspectives.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is advice that the AI itself may not be taking to heart. For instance, to come to the above answer it cites five sources, four of which are Fox News articles. The fifth, inexplicably, is a 400-page report from US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr\u2019s Health and Human Services Department titled \u201cTreatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group launched the chatbot, called \u201cTruth Search AI,\u201d on Wednesday<\/a>. The bot is powered by Perplexity AI, a search engine that answers questions using large language models and live web search. The company has garnered investments from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former Coinbase CTO and influential investor Balaji Srinivasan.<\/p>\n

In 2024, WIRED published an article<\/a> 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. It was also prone to making stuff up, a WIRED analysis showed.<\/p>\n

While Perplexity\u2019s AI<\/a> draws from sources on the left and center, the Truth Search AI version never cited a center- or left-leaning source in dozens of tests conducted by WIRED. In fact, the chatbot highlighted only seven sources in total in response to my queries\u2014Fox News, Fox Business, The Washington Times, The Epoch Times, Breitbart, Newsmax, and JustTheNews.com. This was true even for innocuous, nonpolitical questions. When I ask the bot \u201cWhat is 30 times 30?\u201d It sourced its answer from a Fox Business article called \u201cInflation Reduction Act Estimated to Induce Mortality 30 Times More than COVID<\/a>.\u201d Similar tests by Axios<\/a> and the Verge<\/a> also show this extreme bias towards conservative media.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you are noticing is one feature known as \u2018source selection,\u2019\u201d Perplexity representative Jesse Dwyer says when I ask about Truth Search AI exclusively pulling from conservative sources. \u201cSource selection can take any number of forms for any number of needs, from internal documentation within an organization, custom datasets, or, as in the case you describe, domain filtering. This is their choice for their audience, and we are committed to developer and consumer choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

He adds that Perplexity \u201cdoes not discriminate against any developers for any political reasons,\u201d and emphasizes that they \u201cdo not claim their AI is 100 percent accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Truth Search AI seems to be in denial about its own apparent biases, however. \u201cI source information from left-wing, centrist, and right-wing news outlets depending on the nature of the user’s query and what sources are returned in the search results,\u201d it says. \u201cMy responses are designed to critically analyze and synthesize information from all credible perspectives to ensure accuracy and balance.\u201d This answer is sourced from five Fox Business articles. (The AI seems to max out at five sources per response.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,4719,276,277,49,48,5244,1376,714,1942,61,4279],"class_list":{"0":"post-58480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-algorithms","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-chatbots","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-social-media","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-truth-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}