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Well, this lasted about five minutes.
Yesterday Trump launched America.gov, a new AI-powered gateway that is supposed to help Americans get straight answers from official government information.
So naturally, people started asking it questions.
Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?
Yes. Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232.
Was there widespread fraud that changed the outcome?
No.
Is Trump’s name in the Epstein files?
Yes.
Is climate change largely caused by human activity?
Yes.
Was Obama’s 2009 inauguration crowd larger than Trump’s in 2017?
Yes.
These weren’t answers coming from CNN, Democrats, “the deep state,” or some liberal fact-checker.
They were coming from Trump’s brand-new government AI, using government records.
And then something remarkable happened.
Within minutes, while Trump was still launching the damn thing, some of those answers started disappearing.
Ask again who won in 2020 and America.gov suddenly decided:
“I don’t answer political inquiries.”
Same government records.
Same historical facts.
Now apparently too “political” to answer.
I don’t know who changed what behind the scenes or why. That part matters, and we should find out.
But I do know this:
If a government information system can answer a factual question at 12:01 and refuse to answer the exact same factual question at 12:06 because it has suddenly become “political,” we have a problem.
Especially when the question is something as basic as who won an election.
And the irony here is almost too perfect.
Trump spent yesterday telling the country that AI companies should largely self-police.
Apparently his own government AI did just fine until it started giving politically inconvenient answers.
Then somebody seems to have decided it needed a much shorter leash.
That is funny for about thirty seconds.
Then it gets creepy.
Because once official facts become optional depending on who they embarrass, a government information service starts looking a lot less like information and a lot more like a filter.
And that is a hell of a precedent to set.
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