India Gets Its Own TruthGPT, Its Wholly Untruthful

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.