The headline says Trump reprogrammed his chatbot to stop fact-checking him. The answers did change overnight. Then, within hours, some of the fact-checks came back.
The New Republic's headline says Trump reprogrammed the America.gov chatbot to stop fact-checking his lies.
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The Trump administration reprogrammed its new America.gov AI chatbot to stop fact-checking the president's false claims.
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Trump Reprograms Government AI Chatbot to Stop Fact-Checking His Lies
The chatbot flatly and correctly noted that many of these Trump claims are not true
America.gov will continue to be updated to provide more features, resources, and the most accurate information from the federal government.
The Trump administration appears to have changed its AI chatbot so that it no longer debunks Trump lies.
which uses AI systems including Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok
Dale and others noted that the answers provided by the chatbot appear to be changing in real-time
Now the chatbot is providing even more detailed answers than it did yesterday.
It was unclear whether the Trump administration had tweaked the settings to prevent the chatbot from debunking the president.
The chatbot, however, continued to debunk some of Mr Trump's other contentious claims.