The White House chatbot contradicted Trump while he was on stage.
The White House launched America.gov on Tuesday, a chatbot answering from about 29,000 federal websites. Asked who won the 2020 election, it said Joe Biden took 306 electoral votes. Within hours the site stopped answering political questions, including that one.
Why it mattersTwo private models, Google's Gemini and Musk's Grok, now answer official questions about benefits and passports. What a government chatbot refuses to say is itself a political decision.
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