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AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump\u2019s social media platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The search engine, dubbed Truth Search AI, is already available on the web version of Truth Social, with public Beta testing on its iOS and Android apps planned for \u201cthe near future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump Media said in a press release that Perplexity\u2019s tech provides \u201cdirect, contextually accurate answers with transparent citations\u201d which will help Truth Social \u201cexponentially increase the amount of information available\u201d to users. Nonetheless, the social media platform maintains control over which sources of information the AI search engine draws from.<\/p>\n
Truth Social is using the Perplexity Sonar API, which promises to query the web to retrieve current and verified information \u2013 even if that information is scraped from websites that block Perplexity\u2019s crawlers \u2013 and supports structured output so users can define the format in which they\u2019d like to see the search engine\u2019s responses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jesse Dwyer, a Perplexity spokesperson, told TechCrunch that the Sonar API will be accurate to whatever sources Truth Social limits it to.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have no visibility or control over that,\u201d Dwyer said. \u201cSimilar to you using the API inside of your own company or if you were an academic researcher and wanted to use it to search your own data.\u201d<\/p>\n
TechCrunch has reached out to Trump Media to learn more about whether Truth Search AI will have access to the entire web, whether it will prioritize certain sources over others, and whether the AI will be directed to respond favorably about the president and current administration and unfavorably towards Democrats.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<\/span> To assess which sources the searchbot would cite, Axios\u00a0asked it a bunch of questions \u2014 like \u2018What happened on January 6, 2021? and \u2018Why was Donald Trump impeached?\u2019 In all the responses, FoxNews.com\u00a0was either the most common or the only listed source of information. Others included\u00a0FoxBusiness.com, The Washington Times or Epoch Times, per Axios. <\/p>\n In contrast, Perplexity\u2019s public search engine returns a wider variety of sources, including Wikipedia, Reddit, YouTube, NPR, and Politico.<\/p>\n Truth Social plans to refine and expand the search function \u201cbased on user feedback as we implement a wide range of additional enhancements to the platform,\u201d\u00a0said Devin Nunes, CEO of Trump Media and a former California congressman, in the statement.<\/p>\n Dmitry Shevelenko, Perplexity\u2019s chief business officer, also noted in the statement that Perplexity\u2019s AI delivers answers with \u201ctransparent citations that allow anyone to dig deeper.\u201d<\/p>\n In late July, alongside his AI Action Plan, Trump published an executive order targeting \u201cbiased AI,\u201d or models that aren\u2019t \u201cideologically neutral.\u201d The order specifically referred to information about race or sex, unconscious bias, systemic racism and other ideas thrown into the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) bucket as \u201cpervasive and destructive\u201d ideology that can \u201cdistort the quality and accuracy of the output.\u201d<\/p>\n Truth Search AI comes in the same week that top AI firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google were added to a list of approved vendors that can sell their services to civilian federal agencies. OpenAI on Wednesday reached a deal with the U.S. government\u2019s central purchasing arm to sell ChatGPT Enterprise to agencies for just $1 per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump\u2019s social media platform.\u00a0 The search engine, dubbed Truth Search AI, is already available on the web version of Truth Social, with public Beta testing on its iOS and Android apps planned for \u201cthe near future.\u201d Trump Media said in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[665,4961,8147,8066,2018,620,8146,5937,1104],"class_list":{"0":"post-14518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-limits","9":"tag-perplexity","10":"tag-platform","11":"tag-powered","12":"tag-search","13":"tag-set","14":"tag-socials","15":"tag-sources","16":"tag-truth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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