Truth Social has introduced an AI-powered search engine, Truth Search AI, developed by Perplexity, available on its web platform, with plans for mobile app public beta testing. This technology offers direct and contextually accurate answers with citations to significantly increase the information available to users. The platform will control the information sources accessed by the AI. The Sonar API will provide verified current information, even from restricted sites. Initial assessments of the searchbot's output showed a strong reliance on FoxNews.com for responses.
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 "the near future."
Perplexity's tech provides "direct, contextually accurate answers with transparent citations" which will help Truth Social "exponentially increase the amount of information available" to users.
Truth Social is using the Perplexity Sonar API, which promises to query the web to retrieve current and verified information - even if that information is scraped from websites that block Perplexity's crawlers.
To assess which sources the searchbot would cite, Axios asked it a bunch of questions - like 'What happened on January 6, 2021?' and 'Why was Donald Trump impeached?' In all the responses, FoxNews.com was either the most common or the only listed source of information.
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