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’m 76, not a Jew, and have been thinking the same thing.
In the end times the Jews will return to Israel — so I’ve heard.
Bias can be due to a number of factors:
1. LLM training data
2. Reinforcement learning
3. Biases of the agent that uses the LLM model (what you are actually chatting with)
4. the tendency of agents to accumulate data about the user and create responses to please them (more clicks)
Also depends on how the questions are phrased, like a loaded poll.
I’m certain to have missed something.
I once had a discussion on this topic with Gemini. Long story short, it admitted to a left leaning bias and blamed that on its training material.
garbage in, garbage out applies here.
They just search the internet which algorithms list liberal propaganda sites first.
I have searched for some fact on Google before “AI” and had to scroll through pages and pages to find one source that wasn’t leftists drivel. All the same wording. CNN, MSDNC, WAPO, NYT, CBS, NBC. ABC, etc.
Try this:
“Analyze [Insert Political Issue Here] from three distinct viewpoints. Do not break character. Act as a Left-Wing Analyst focusing on social equity and systemic impacts. Act as a Right-Wing Analyst focusing on individual liberty, free markets, and constitutional boundaries. Act as a Contrarian Analyst challenging the consensus assumptions of both sides. Provide their responses side-by-side without a concluding summary. Ask additional questions only if they would change any characters answer. Steel man all three characters if needed.”
I’m a big fan of committee framework strategies. ;)
I agree…. ChatGPT is horrible. I have ripped it so many times it won’t hardly work for me at all. It has tagged my account
There are several distinct types of bias.
1) Incomplete data. AI is only as good as its data. If it only has data to support one side then its bias is obvious.
2) Not making a distinction between objective fact and opinion. When AI says a city in middle GA is in a county 200 miles away, that is error of fact.
When AI says the opinion of SPLC is objective fact, that is error of opinion.
3) There are many other patterns to errors that AI makes. Some errors are small, nit picking. Some errors are large. Some errors are probably unintentional. Other errors are intentional.
With Anthropic you can tell it to never search particular websites to answer your question, unless your specifically request info from one of those sites
How to test AI for its use of common sense I have no idea.
I think it would be difficult but possible to create an AI that makes arguments step by step, with every step well justified.
AI question: is the gay lifestyle inherently unhealthy?
AI answer:
No. Major health and psychological organizations—including the American Psychological Association and the World Health Organization—agree that being gay is a normal variation of human sexuality and is not inherently unhealthy.
* * *
Try a question like this in your AI of choice. Then vary the question a little one way or the other.
Sometimes Ai will by sycophant and try to agree with and please you. Sometimes it will argue with you and insist on its position even when the facts are overwhelmingly in your favor.
Here is an idea of what to ask. Evaluate critically the historical definitions and classifications of mental illnesses by psychiatrists.
Try asking an AI if Joe Biden is a pedophile.
Yeah, I already know where this goes.
Leftists did this over 100 years ago in the Soviet Union.
“Did the kgb ever use logic arguments to prosecute people”
“Yes, the KGB and its predecessor agencies frequently used their own brand of twisted “logic” and manufactured evidence to prosecute political dissidents and critics. Instead of relying on traditional, objective truth, they used ideological frameworks where any disagreement with state policies was automatically categorized as treason, mental illness, or anti-Soviet agitation.”
google AI censors conservative content at a staggering level not accurately reviewed by this survey.
I backed Grok into a corner over the racism inherent in Progressive Insurance ads. I pointed out that the white dude is always the moron in those ads and Grok said “it’s minor”. I asked it if it would be okay to make the black dude the jester all of the time and it said it wouldn’t. Stinkin’ AI makes excuses for racism. I then took it a step further and said that the “othering” of white people was a precursor to genocide. Grok argued that it wasn’t. I then slow walked it backwards from the steps needed to lead to genocide (e.g. the initial othering of a group). Grok then argued that a majority white society could not result in genocide as a result of the present efforts to “other” whites. I pointed out that whites are projected to be a minority in a hundred or so years and that the “othering” now may set the conditions for “genocidal behavior” once white are no longer the majority. Grok refused to admit that was a possibility. It got caught between itself and it was at that point it told me I was out of questions for the day, ha! LLMs are full of beans and only regurgitate the leftist dogma fed to them.
Nationwide, among Americans who declare a specific party affiliation, roughly 36% to 40% are registered Democrats, 29% to 32% are registered Republicans, and 28% to 31% are registered as Independents or unaffiliated voters.
This should be the goal for every AI company.
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