Trump and his team added an AI Chatbot to his dying Truth Social platform. Problem is, it disagrees with him on just about everything.

From MSN: “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 conflict of interest to his presidency.” OOOOPS.

It gets worse. When asked about Jan. 6, 2021, Truth Social chatbot says there is no proof the election was stolen and the “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol was violent and linked to Trump’s “baseless claims of widespread election fraud.” OUCH.

Wellllll this is awkward, you know, when your own chatbot basically calls you a liar and says you are spreading fake news. Evidently Trump’s “tech” people have no clue how the AI technology works— not on his platform and not in the United States of American government that they are installing it into at warp speed.

If you are reading this wondering which technology company is powering Trump’s Truth Social AI bot, good on you for thinking! Glad you asked. Here’s the scoop you won’t find anywhere else. it is being powered by “Perplexity” AI technology, which uses OpenAI language models.

• Perplexity AI is an independent, privately held startup, founded in 2022 by a team including Aravind Srinivas (ex-OpenAI researcher) and others
• Perplexity’s platform integrates OpenAI’s GPT models — including GPT-3.5-turbo, GPT-4-turbo, GPT-4.1, and others

So basically truth social is using ChatGPT. Evidently Trump and his team have not used ChatGPT much, because if they had, they would know that it is programmed to dispute basically everything he says.

You might be inclined to think this isn’t a big deal. But when you consider the same team is basically powering the United States government now and making all the decisions about the AI technology, it is more than a big deal; it is the future of your country in the hands of complete technology neophytes and misinformation spreaders. Yikes!