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Kid Berwyn

(24,023 posts)
6. May it sting, long and hard -- Just-Us.
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 10:25 AM
Aug 2025

Seems there's a disturbance in the Force.



Truth Social just installed an AI chatbot that actually exposes Trump's lies

Why Trump’s Truth Social AI chatbot feels oddly out of place in the MAGA-verse.


Aug. 13, 2025, 10:17 AM EDT
By Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC Opinion Writer/Editor

President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social is a safe space for him and his movement, an autocrat-friendly network where the president’s posts — which are called “truths” on the platform — are praised effusively and largely go uncontested.

But Truth Social rolled out a new AI chatbot on the platform last week that is apparently failing to read the room. When prompted for information, it shares plenty of truths that contradict or discredit the president.

In exchanges with a Washington Post reporter, Truth Search AI undermined Trump 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." When asked to verify Trump's claim on Truth Social that crime in Washington, D.C., is "totally out of control," the bot cited government statistics and said there were in reality "substantial declines in violent crime" in D.C. — and even italicized the word declines.

I played around with Truth Search AI myself and had a similar experience. I asked it to describe what happened at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In contrast to Trump's "day of love" narrative, Truth Search AI said, "It was a violent breach of the U.S. Capitol by a pro‑Trump crowd that disrupted Congress’s certification of the 2020 Electoral College results, resulting in assaults on police, injuries, property damage, and hundreds of criminal cases ranging from misdemeanors to felonies." When I asked if it was appropriate to describe that as an insurrection or a coup, it responded, "Based on standard definitions, January 6 is best described as an attempted insurrection rather than a successful coup; it can also be framed as a failed coup attempt because the goal was to disrupt the lawful transfer of presidential power, but it lacked the organized seizure of state levers typical of coups."

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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-truth-social-ai-chatbot-fact-check-rcna224590



"I'm wondering how long it'll take before Truth Social will want to tell its AI: 'You're fired.'"

Hope A.I. orders Ka$h Patel and the FBI to lock them all up, including Ka$h.


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