The AI-epidemic of the internet is no joke, with every website, service, and platform looking to offer its own version of an LLM-powered helpful assistant. The platform previously known as Twitter has Grok, Meta has MetaAI, and if you’re a service that doesn’t quite have the engineering might of a Silicon Valley AI startup, you’ve got a partnership. Last week, Truth Social, the X-alternative that prides itself on free speech, and what some would say, politically loaded discourse, announced a partnership with Perplexity.
AI tools are only as good as the sources they use.
Similar to Grok, Truth AI is geared towards helping users get to the truth of the matter with in-line answers, fact-checking. It can, of course, also be used simply as a search engine. Now, there’s a wide gulf between promising “the truth” and actually delivering balanced and well-sourced information. Moreover, AI models, even when licensed, don’t always behave the same. For example, Bing Chat isn’t quite the same as ChatGPT, even though it uses a model derived from ChatGPT.
