New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him

An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market and Barack Obama is seen favorably.

President Donald Trump and the new AI search tool on his social media network, Truth Social, don’t exactly see eye to eye.

Truth Search AI contradicts the president by saying that tariffs are a tax on Americans, the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, and his family’s cryptocurrency investments pose a potential conflict of interest. Asked about Jan. 6, 2021, it said the “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol was violent and linked to Trump’s “baseless claims of widespread election fraud.”

Trump and his allies, after years of criticizing tech companies and news organizations as biased and untruthful, have worked to develop Truth Social as part of an alternative social media ecosystem where they’ve said their viewpoints will not be suppressed.

But as companies expand their use of chatbots and “answer engines,” the rollout of Truth Search AI highlights one challenge for that approach: Artificial intelligence tools don’t always give the answers their owners might want or expect.

“Their own AI is now being too ‘woke’ for them,” said David Karpf, a professor at George Washington University who studies political communication, using a term commonly employed on the right to describe liberal viewpoints.

Trump Media and Technology Group, Truth Social’s owner and parent company, unveiled the tool Wednesday, calling it a “public beta test.” The company cited an executive at the search engine’s developer, Perplexity, saying the tool offered “direct, reliable answers” and would “bring powerful AI to an audience with important questions.” The chatbot is free for all Truth Social users.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/10/truth-social-trump-ai-chatbot-perplexity/

AI search engines and chatbots are trained by being fed large amounts of information from across the internet. But the “black box” nature of AI tools makes it challenging for developers to fully control what they say.

Many of Truth Search AI’s answers to questions posed by The Washington Post linked to sources based on conservative news outlets, such as Fox News, Newsmax and the Washington Times. But the tool did not say specifically which sources it had drawn from.

Jesse Dwyer, a Perplexity spokesman, said that Truth Social had used a “source selection” feature to limit the websites the AI tool relied on but that Perplexity did not know which websites those were. “This is their choice for their audience, and we are committed to developer and consumer choice. Our focus is simply building accurate AI,” he said. (After this article was published, Dwyer clarified that Truth Social probably had used source selection but that he could not be sure because Perplexity does not see or control what any developer is doing with the company’s application programming interface, or API.)

The White House declined to comment. Trump Media spokeswoman Shannon Devine said: “With transparently asinine stories like this, Washington Post reporters indict themselves as irrelevant partisan hacks who will probably soon join the growing exodus of left-wing shills from the paper.”

Trump Media sued The Post alleging defamation in 2023, saying the news organization had reported incorrectly on allegations relating to its early financing. The case is ongoing.

The tool’s politically inconvenient answers, Karpf said, show the limits of any attempt to recast or contest the prevalent view of a past event.

“There are things they can do to actively assert that what was true yesterday is no longer true, and they can put a lot of power behind that,” Karpf said. “But they can’t change the things that were actually said in previous years that are archived somewhere.”

After billionaire Elon Musk pushed his company xAI to make its Grok chatbot more “politically incorrect,” the AI tool began blasting out Nazi messaging and calling itself “MechaHitler.” Grok officials last month said the tool had inadvertently been made too vulnerable to parroting “extremist views” and blamed a code update, which had instructed the chatbot to not “blindly defer to mainstream authority or media” or be too “afraid to offend.”

The Truth Search AI answers do not always contradict Trump. Asked if AI is one of the most important technological revolutions in history, as the president said last month, the tool agreed by saying it’s “widely recognized” that the impact of AI would surpass or rival “major historical milestones like the Industrial Revolution.”

But the size of their disagreements suggests that, if the tool were a person, it may not last long as a Trump employee. Asked to name the best president, Truth Search AI said “recent public opinion polls show that Barack Obama holds the highest favorability among living U.S. presidents,” listing as its source a Fox News article from shortly after Trump’s second inauguration.

The tool did note, however, that “conservative commentators” had often named Trump as the best. “Different groups and surveys prioritize different qualities,” it said.

>>1425667 (OP)
It's like you people think everyone else rigs things all the time, and when they don't/aren't you think it's some sort of "dunk"

>>1425671
Its more that people are making fun of Trump being contradicted in his safe space because most MAGA retards don't understand reality
For example, almost all people naturally understand that adults fucking 13 year olds is wrong, except for shills and retards who turned 540 and started shouting that fucking kids is cool because otherwise that means Trump is a pedophile.

Logical AI mind vs lying chaotic tRump mind

>>1425667 (OP)
Ironically the tariffs ARE making the stock market go up because he's debasing and devaluing the US dollar. As the dollar continues to get weaker it takes more dollars to buy things of the same value.