Key takeaways
- The Whole Truth Foods launched a platform called TruthGPT, aimed at providing fact-checked information about food and fitness.
- Founder Shashank Mehta highlights the need for reliable information, criticising existing sources like Google and influencers.
- The TruthGPT platform, while marketed as honest, may be seen as a gimmick rather than a genuine tool.
- The platform is developed with a dataset focused on verified fitness and food information, powered by the company Fini.
- The Indian tech ecosystem is increasingly interested in developing their own large language models.
While Elon Musk has been trying to make TruthGPT in a bid to “understand the reality”, the Indian ecosystem is already at it. Mumbai-based The Whole Truth Foods has launched its own, fact-checked TruthGPT to give information about food and fitness.
Shashank Mehta, the founder of The Whole Truth, posted on LinkedIn about how people do not need to go to Google, or rely on influencers on Instagram, or click on some click-baity links on the internet for information. Interestingly, according to Mehta, “Even ChatGPT, the OG GPT, doesn’t help. It’s trained on all of the world wide web. And on all the falsities and misinformation the web contains. There’s a very high chance of GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out.”
AIM tried the platform, and surprisingly it is nowhere close to what ChatGPT offers.
But according to Mehta, this TruthGPT platform is an LLM trained on “fact-checked” dataset, which is the company's verified fitness and food dataset. Interestingly, The Whole Truth Foods company has been all about honesty, and this clearly seems like a marketing gimmick from the company.
The platform is powered by Fini, a YC-backed company that has been building chatbots for companies using their proprietary algorithms such as Uber, Lancey, and many others.
Indian influencers and developers have been bullish on developing their own LLMs and have developed things like KundliGPT, GitaGPT, which is still fine. But when a company claims they are going to give dietary advice to people, it has to be fool proof, which the company does not promise or reveal at all, not being wholly truthful.
