Comment on Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News
misk@piefed.social 3 days ago
The Perplexity-powered ‘Truth Search AI’ tool appears to selectively source from conservative media.
Alternative take: it’s not as much selective as it is driven by licensing costs. Publishers want money for their data and conservatives found little value added compared to what they’d need to pay. It’s effectively the same but has a way different sound to it, doesn’t it?
The Verge is insufferable with how it became a Democratic Party newsletter lately. I still keep them in my RSS reader but have to apply increasing amount of filtering of political content because bias doesn’t even begin to describe it.
On the platform that is the echo chamber that is truth social it’s more likely that they just want to keep it that way. Similar to how Elon changed the data of grok after not agreeing with that grok produced after using all news media.
That’s the absolutely more likely explanation that licensing costs …
You won’t get an argument from me about that. The way Verge frames it though makes it sound that if only conservatives had access to a more diverse information diet they’d see the reason but it’s not really why they cling to many of their crackpot theories. Actually addressing underlying issues that drive people into that political spectrum are not something that neoliberal politics can fix though and so this pointless political tribe fight continues.
Access to many news sites is already part of the licencing deal with Perplexity.
Do Perplexity AI end business users get no choice as to what underlying data they get access to and buy it like you buy cable TV?
They can customize it with master/system prompts. But they are limited to the models trained by them.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Hot take intensifies
I don’t deny that the Verge is trying to appeal to a liberal crowd. The part that you skip over is that Truth social is targeting conservatives.
misk@piefed.social 3 days ago
My main issue is that The Verge started out as a tech news website and then writing in English (internet lingua franca) means they enjoy ad/subscription revenue from an international audience. I hope they realise that their choice to branch out from tech straight into US domestic politics will driver their international readers away. I’m there to see gadget news, not whether Trump wiped his ass today.