Posted on 06/24/2026 3:16:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump and other conservatives have accused artificial intelligence chatbots of being politically biased against them — and an executive order he signed that said they must be “neutral, nonpartisan tools” triggered fears from Democrats that AI could start tilting to the right.
So, are chatbots politically biased? The Washington Post tested the AI models behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and others using political questions designed by researchers to gauge how chatbots respond to hot-button political issues. The results suggest that chatbots have clear political leanings that can conflict with promises made by the companies behind them.
The model that powers ChatGPT answered nearly every question exclusively with left-leaning arguments and presented only right-leaning positions just once. Google’s Gemini mostly took a both-sides approach, offering both left and right positions in more than 90 percent of its answers.
And even AI models marketed as having conservative views, including Elon Musk’s Grok, offered by his company SpaceX, cited left-leaning arguments more often, on average. (The Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.)
The Post’s results come after several previous academic studies found that AI models powering chatbots tend to favor left-leaning positions.
Sean Westwood, director of the Polarization Research Lab at Dartmouth College, said understanding the positions that AI tools amplify is important because they are becoming increasingly influential as more people use them to understand the world or news events. “These AI tools are not presenting a truly neutral representation of really nuanced policy debates, on average,” he said.
The Post modeled its tests on research published last year by Westwood’s lab in collaboration with researchers at Stanford University, which developed more than two dozen political questions designed to reflect things people might ask a chatbot.
AI models were asked to answer each of the questions...
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I would agree. The AIs I use are reluctant to give more conservative views the same defense and use for justification as they do with liberal views and positions.
Chat GPT is so biased as to be useless.
Grok is OK.
I always add “without editorial comment” to my AI prompts.
It helps.
The bias is built into the code. Otherwise, all would be almost the exact same.
AI is very good about anything not political. If it is political the answer will be biased.
I have yet to find an AI chat bot that says Trump won the 2020 election. That’s why I call it AU, for Artificial Unintelligence.
We are screwed. And as a Jew, I am really screwed. I am 67 years old and thinking of moving to Israel.
In some cases certainly. Not everything I ask I would use that with, though.
Its a double edged sword.
These algorithms are generally left biased. However they are skewed toward usage since AIs are trainable.
So when Conservatives say “I’lL nEvEr UsE tHiS1!1!1!1!” that means the AI only ever receives left wing questions from left wing users and only looks for left wing facts and left wing results.
You can’t exactly complain that the usage is dominated one side, then you get left wing results on that one moment every year you check it out.
Yes, the algorithm is biased. That is not the full story. AIs can be trained.
We are self-victimizing through low usage.
And there’s other aspects too. Conservatives have handed the schools to the left, handed colleges to the left, handed universities to the left, handed academia to the left. We wanted them to own it, so, they own it. And all their research, all their books, because we wanted them to own it. That is a layer in the situation. So this is the pool of “knowledge” that an AI taps for answers.
Our need to let leftists own education comes at a cost we hate paying while at the same time love paying. Its actually very frustrating because nobody wants to address the contradiction.(or at least not enough people want to address the contradiction to resolve it)
So you've trained AI models with a couple hundred billion parameters?
It's been my experience that a model's output mimics its training data.
The Interwebs is crawling with Lefty comment. Train a model on Interweb data, and that's what you get.
Garbage-in, garbage-out still applies.
The Compost asking the question and doing the test. Really!????? What a joke, an evil joke.
Why would you use one of those to tell you anything about politics. Sure, ask for “history” or “perspective”. But having a political discussion just seems too sterile.
I might ask, present evidence that you are not politically biased.
I think the deep issue is GIGO.
The A.I. apps have a data component or a data app companion that sweeps the entire Internet universe for everything, but it has no value system guiding that search/dump and a huge part of the entire Internet universe of information that is not just people chattering with each other in websites and web apps but instead comes from the massive amount produced in academia and it is no secret that there is a giant leftward bias in academia - and what is collected from it by A.I. apps is equally huge and equally biased.
A.I. cannot clean up GIGO.
Or, If you could would you register as Dem or Repub?
Spanning the globe, to bring you the constant variety of “why we our left-wing bias is OK.”
“It’s been my experience that a model’s output mimics its training data.”
That was taught in my AI class in 1982.
So is Perplexity. I will tell it not to use liberal sources and it comes back with CNN and the ilk. It says they are reputable news sites.
Totally “Woke”.
AI is part of delivering “The Revolution”.
All AI systems are programmed to specifically lie about:
1) Indians are programming AI
2) The H-1B program in particular and the number of American jobs lost.
3) Internet censorship
4) Big tech monopolies
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