Washington DC - President Donald Trump's new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot mysteriously stopped telling the truth about the 2020 election only shortly after it was found to admit that Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
Trump unveiled what he called a "damn good" AI chatbot this week, but it quickly drew attention for contradicting some of his contentious political claims.
"Hello, America. Whatever you need from government, start here," reads the America.gov platform, which Trump launched in a bid to simplify access to government information and federal services.
The chatbot soon began contradicting Trump on controversial subjects such as the 2020 presidential election, which he wrongly claims to have won, and the January 6, 2021 insurrection that saw a violent mob attacking the US Capitol.
A day later, however, it stopped answering these very same political questions.
"On its first day, America.gov harnessed facts and official documents to contradict some of the false narratives and political framing about immigration and elections heavily promoted by the administration that built it," said the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas.
"Initial analyses found that America.gov generally provided evidence-based answers backed by government records, even when those records contradicted claims made by Trump and his administration."
On Tuesday, when asked whether there had been widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, the chatbot responded: "Official federal assessments after the 2020 presidential election did not find fraud at a scale that changed the outcome."
Democratic lawmakers quickly promoted the chatbot's responses about the election.
"Finally, a straight answer from someone in the Trump administration," Senator Adam Schiff of California wrote on X on Tuesday, alongside a screenshot of the chatbot's statement that former President Joe Biden had won the 2020 election.
But on Wednesday, the chatbot changed its tune when asked the same question, stating: "I do not provide political commentary or analysis of past elections."