An unlikely alliance. In a press release, Truth Social, Donald Trump’s social network, announced the Beta opening of “Truth Seach Ai”, a search engine for artificial intelligence that will be integrated into the platform. To execute this service, the true truth requested perplexity.
Therefore, perplexity could become the truth, the equivalent of what Grok is for X. This association, the commercial director of perplexity, Dmitry Shevelenko, is delighted: “We are delighted to associate with the social truth to put a powerful AI available to an audience that arises important questions,” he said in the press release.
A social network like Trump
It is interesting to understand how these two entities, in incompatible paper, can work together. Truth Social is a Twitter clone, created by a relative of Donald Trump after being banished from several social networks in 2020 (consequence of the Capitol Assault).
As several US media pointed out, most publications on the social network comply with the president’s political line, that is, very conservative. Some accounts even use it to convey misinformation or even conspiracy theories, as evidenced by New York Times. But Truth Social is better known to be the Donald Trump gallery, which expresses its mood directly from the platform.
This tendency to misinformation can be denoted with perplexity that frequently obtains your answers for articles of reliable media (CNN, ABCNews). The latter are also openly and regularly criticized by the president.
An alternative version
Then we asked for perplexity, apart from Truth Social, who thought of Donald Trump. His response remains nuanced, but some formulations are far from the loss for the president:
Why would Donald Trump leave an AI that does not hesitate to criticize him integrate his platform? As Axios points out, the perplexity version in social truth is different. When perplexity sells its AI to other platforms, they can customize the sources of information used and fix their own safeguards.
When trying the truth of the truth, Axios noticed that the tool only generated their responses from the pro-trump media, the conservatives, even the conspiracy for some. Among them are Foxnews, Foxbusiness, Washington Times or Epoch. It is known that the latter is an important misinformation vector as our liberation colleagues reported in 2023.
“A safe shelter for freedom of expression”
In view of the sources of information used, the real ai seems to follow a Trumpist political line. The search engine is far from the traditional AI also considered “wokes” by the White House. Trump Media also remembers his position in his press release:
This association could also give a boost to perplexity. It should be said that AI is in a complicated pass since it is subject to strong accusations. Cloudfare, an important American company in the field of cybersecurity, revealed earlier this week that the vampiris data of certain sites, without its consent and despite its prohibition.
Source: BFM TV
