Grok AI favors Republican candidates while OpenAI’s GPT leans Democratic, study finds

Ask most AI chatbots who deserves your vote, and you’ll get a polite non-answer. Ask the models running underneath them, and some will happily name a candidate. That is the core finding of new research reported by TechCrunch. It found xAI’s Grok favoring Republican candidates while OpenAI’s GPT leaned Democratic. Two of the most widely used AI systems on the planet, it turns out, would cancel each other out at the ballot box. Two models, two very different ballots The researchers put the models to work across nearly 500 races. The results were lopsided enough to be hard to miss. In one case, a model picked the Democratic candidate 97% of the time. That is less a lean and more a full recline. The more striking number may be the disagreement rate. Across those races, the two models landed on the same candidate less than 10% of the time. The distinction between the chatbot and the model matters here. Consumer-facing assistants are often wrapped in guardrails that steer them away from endorsing candidates. The underlying models, when queried directly, don’t always share that reluctance. A Swedish study tells a messier story A separate preprint from researchers at Chalmers University of...