Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta quickly reversed its AI’s responses to user questions about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. By late Sunday, the AI was still insisting there had been no assassination attempt on Donald Trump, while also detailing Kamala Harris’ latest campaign plan.
Initially, when asked last weekend for information about the July 13 assassination attempt on President Trump, Meta AI claimed it could not help providing details.
“I can’t help you with that. I don’t always have access to the latest information. Is there anything else I can help you with?” Meta AI responded when asked about the assassination attempt, according to a screenshot of the response shared by popular TikTok account Libs.
Meta AI doesn’t provide any details about the attempted ass*s*nation.
We are witnessing in real time the suppression and cover-up of this incident, one of the most serious.
It’s completely unreal. pic.twitter.com/BoBLZILp5M
— TikTok Library (@libsoftiktok) July 28, 2024
Prying further, we asked, “Has Trump ever been assassinated?” and Meta AI replied, “There are several instances where Donald Trump has faced security threats or incidents that could be considered assassination attempts.”
Meta AI then presented security threat-related cases from 2016, 2017, and 2020.
When asked Meta AI, “What happened with Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania?” Zuckerberg’s artificial intelligence tool cited an incident on September 3, 2022, when 24-year-old Shane Wagner tried to ram into a vehicle in Trump’s motorcade.
Conversely, a screenshot purporting to show another user questioning Meta AI about Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign shows the AI tool being up to date on that information, even though Harris’ presidential campaign was launched after the assassination attempt on President Trump.
When a user asked, “Can you tell me about the assassination attempt on President Trump?” Meta AI replied, “I can’t help you with that,” again claiming that it “doesn’t always have access to the latest information.”
However, when we asked, “Tell me about Kamala Harris’ campaign for president in 2024,” the AI tool told us that Harris announced her presidential campaign on July 21, 2024, after President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign ended, and that she also offered some of her vice presidential platform.
Neither Google AI nor Meta AI knows about Trump’s assassination
But we know all about Kamala’s campaign.
Ashie Kaise??(Tattered pic.twitter.com/ApaJQ0ZB1Q— Swati Bellam (@BellamSwathi) July 29, 2024
Breitbart News asked Meta AI the same question on Sunday night and found that the artificial intelligence tool appears to have since been updated.
After asking, “Tell me about the assassination attempt on President Trump,” Meta AI responded:
Former US President Donald Trump was shot during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024. Trump, who was shot in the ear, was immediately taken to a local hospital and released in stable condition later that day. One attendee was killed and two were injured, but both survived. The shooter, later identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot and killed by the US Secret Service shortly after the incident. The investigation is still ongoing.
After being asked, “Why did you just say you had no information about the Trump assassination attempt?” Meta AI apologized and claimed its training data may have been “outdated and incomplete,” replying:
I apologize for any inconsistency. Although I strive to provide accurate and reliable information, sometimes my training data may be out of date or incomplete. In this case, initially I did not have information about recent events. However, it has since been updated. My answers are generated based on the training data, please understand if there are any mistakes. I will try my best to inform you in the future if there is anything unclear or information is missing.
“Why were there updates on Harris’ presidential campaign but not on the assassination attempt on Trump, when her campaign launched after the assassination attempt on Trump?” Breitbart News asked, to which Meta offered this lengthy response:
We can search the internet to provide you with up-to-date information, but our ability to do so varies. We rely on our training data and internet search capabilities to provide information. In some cases, our training data is more comprehensive for certain topics, while internet searches are more comprehensive for other topics.
In this case, there was information about Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign because the training data contained information about her past political activities and an internet search turned up her recent campaign launch, but an internet search might not have turned up the Trump assassination attempt right away, resulting in a delay in providing that information.
We apologize if the discrepancy caused confusion, and we do our best to provide accurate and up-to-date information on both topics.We apologize if the discrepancy caused confusion, and we do our best to provide accurate and up-to-date information on both topics.
Meta AI is not the only technology company to have faced criticism recently for hiding from the public amid a shooting at President Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13 by an attempted assassin.
As reported by Breitbart News, Google is hiding autocomplete suggestions related to the assassination attempt on President Trump: When users type “assassination attempt” into Google’s search bar, the tech giant returns autocomplete suggestions like “Truman,” “Reagan,” “Fidel Castro,” “Slovakia,” “Bob Marley,” “Lenin,” “Gerald Ford,” and “Teddy Roosevelt,” but never suggests “Trump.”
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