Remember when there was Gold in Ft Knox?

[3825-87867]

It's still there, right?

[doc03]

1. Trump toured the vault so maybe not.

[Greg_In_SF]

4. No

he didn't.

[doc03]

5. I thought he did or wanted to months ago.

[Goonch]

2. ;-{)

"As of February 5, 2026, the
United States Bullion Depository
at Fort Knox contains approximately 147.3 million fine troy ounces (roughly 4,580 metric tons) of gold.
Based on the current live market price of approximately $4,784.80 per ounce, this gold is worth about $704.8 billion.

Key Facts and Sources:

Reliable Source: The official data for these holdings is maintained by the U.S. Mint, which is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury.
Book Value: While the market value is in the hundreds of billions, the government officially lists the gold's "book value" at a constant statutory price of $42.22 per ounce, a rate set by law in 1973.
Holdings Capacity: This stockpile represents about half of the total gold reserves held by the U.S. Treasury; the remainder is stored at the Denver and West Point Mints and the San Francisco Assay Office.
Security: The facility is a massive fortress constructed of 16,000 cubic feet of granite and 4,200 cubic yards of concrete, guarded by the U.S. Mint Police and the surrounding Fort Knox Army post."

[highplainsdem]

6. Source for what you just posted? Link?

[Goonch]

7. ;-{)

The official online source for comprehensive data on the
United States Bullion Depository (Fort Knox) is the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Detailed information is primarily available through two specialized treasury platforms:

FiscalData (U.S. Treasury): This is the most direct official source for machine-readable datasets. It provides the Status Report of U.S. Government Gold Reserve, detailing holdings by location, including Fort Knox, in fine troy ounces and book value.
U.S. Mint Official Website: This site offers historical context and key statistics. According to official Mint records, Fort Knox currently holds approximately 147.3 million fine troy ounces of gold.
Bureau of the Fiscal Service: This site hosts the monthly Status Report of U.S. Government Gold Reserve, which provides the official accounting for all gold assets under Treasury jurisdiction.

[highplainsdem]

10. That isn't a link. I'm curious about the source of the quote in reply 2 - you have the entire post in quote marks -

which indicates it's a copy/paste from _somewhere_. I did several searches for exact strings of words you quoted there, and the only source the searches turned up was your post.

The reason I'm asking is that the formatting looks like chatbot responses I've seen posted elsewhere. The same is true of your reply 7 this morning, though you didn't put quotation marks around that.

I'm curious about whether those replies, especially reply 2, were AI-generated because chatbots make mistakes.

You might be quoting a government site that uses a chatbot to generate current information when someone visits the page. The Trump regime is infatuated with genAI. But offering chatbot responses on official pages doesn't make them any more reliable.

Again, I'd appreciate a link for where you found the quote you posted as reply 2.

If you asked a chatbot for that info yourself, so you don't have a link... Well, you wouldn't be the only DUer posting chatbot-written responses. But they should always be identified as coming from a chatbot, so people can evaluate the source of the quote.

And if the Trump regime has set up a chatbot on some site to generate info like the quote you posted in reply 2, I'd really like to know so I can alert a news site to check just how much that government chatbot might be hallucinating.

[Goonch]

11. ;-{)

Used Google search AI which I have thus far found reliable for locating certain information that can be further verified. Don't chat with Chatbots though. Found historic information about myself using Google AI that no other methods found. Pretty impressive. Nevertheless, I take your point.

[highplainsdem]

12. Google's AI - whether the AI Overview that pops up when you search, or Gemini - is just as likely to

get things wrong as other generative AI.

which I have thus far found reliable for locating certain information that can be further verified

Unless you personally checked every detail and statistic in the AI-generated answer you posted, looking at sources that don't hallucinate, you don't know whether it was correct.

The AI robber barons peddlng these illegally trained tools usually add caveats warning that they get things wrong and answers need to be checked. They're not doing that out of imaginary kindness in their nonexistent hearts - they just don't want to be sued for the wrong answers their hopelessly flawed tools will inevitably give.

Even if you're willing to trust an AI tool that can hallucinate at any time, you shouldn't post what was generated by AI here without identifying it as such.

I hope you haven't been posting other AI-written answers here without explaining where you got them.

[Goonch]

13. ;-{)

[highplainsdem]

14. Your response to my wondering why you're posting AI-written replies is to post AI slop video?

[pat_k]

3. The felon committing a marcos-style theft of some of the nation's gold bars...

... wouldn't surprise me in the least. In fact, we should probably expect it. He literally believes that, as president, it's his gold.

[Emile]

8. Trump funneled Gold From Ft Knox To a Bank Account in Qatar

will be the future headlines when he's dead.

[SocialDemocrat61]

9. Yup