Trump supporters on X are absolutely convinced that Big Tech companies are censoring information about theattempted assassinationof Donald Trump.
And yet in the process, theyre inadvertently admitting how broken the internet is at the moment.
The Post asked MetaAI Was the Trump assassination fictional?
Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Butler, PA just before getting shot at on July 13, 2024.© Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images
and got a response that said it was.
The assassination would have been fictional in the sense that Trump wasnt killed.
The assassinationattemptwas very real.
Facebook has responded with a lengthy blog post that breaks down what went wrong.
Honestly, he probably couldve just stopped with his explanation right there.
Generative AI just isnt very good.
Its a technology with extreme limitations, including just making shit up and getting basic things wrong.
But Kaplan cant come out and say AI is a garbage product.
This is a perfectly reasonable way to handle the situation.
Kaplan also explained what happened when some users started to see a photo being flagged of the attempted assassination.
Our teams worked to quickly correct this mistake, Kaplan wrote.
Trump supporters on social media werent buying the explanation including Missouris Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
He went onFox BusinessWednesday to suggest he might sue Meta over its supposed censorship.
Theres a bias within the Big Tech oligarchy, Bailey said.
Thats not happening, and we want to set the record straight, Googles Communications account tweeted onTuesday.
The posts relate to our Autocomplete feature, which predicts queries to save you time.
Autocomplete is just a tool to help you complete a search quickly.
Google also noted that searches for President Donald werent providing the kinds of autocomplete suggestions one would expect.
(4/5) Some people also posted that searches for Donald Trump returned news stories related to Kamala Harris.
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