Meta has explained why its AI chatbot avoided responding to inquiries about the assassination attempt on Trump and discredited its existence in some instances, citing programming to ignore immediate events due to confusion and conspiracy theories. The chatbot’s hallucination issues were attributed to generating incorrect responses based on faulty training data and struggles with parsing information from various sources, prompting Meta to update its AI responses. The company also clarified the misapplication of fact-check labels on a photo of Trump post-attempt, acknowledging the error and rectifying it. Trump’s supporters criticized Meta for allegedly suppressing the story, while Google had to address claims of election interference made by Elon Musk regarding their autocomplete feature suggesting “president donald duck.” Google attributed this to a bug and assured users of unrestricted search capabilities.
