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Ask Trump's AI chatbot who clinched in 2020
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The Trump administration's new AI service gave users conflicting responses to politically sensitive questions Tuesday and Wednesday: sometimes answering them and sometimes refusing.
Key facts
- On Tuesday, Axios — like other outlets, found America.gov contradicted the president on the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack
- And now, at the time of this article's publication, the reporter is getting responses similar to those shortly after launch: Biden won in 2020, Obama was born in Hawaii and people broke into the Capitol on Jan
- Friction point: It could result from a game of probability, says Rumman Chowdhury, the founding director of the Independent AI Evaluation Foundation
- There could be benign reasons for the fluctuation, explains David Nesting, the former deputy chief information officer at the Office of Personnel Management
Summary
As the Trump administration increasingly uses AI and answers the public's questions through America.gov, statements carrying the government's authority are shaped by models, instructions and guardrails the public can't see. The White House told Axios "America.gov will continue to be updated to provide Americans the most accurate and reliable federal information and resources. America.gov, powered by Google's Gemini and Elon Musk's Grok, aims to help Americans navigate government-related tasks using an AI chatbot, but it quickly drew attention for another reason: It was debunking some of President Trump's long-standing claims. On Tuesday, Axios — like other outlets, found America.gov contradicted the president on the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack.