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Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand

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Re: Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand

#41

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Your multimeter reads out voltage relative to the black terminal, it's your responsibility to find the ground plane.

My multimeter doesn't need me to tell it how much a volt is or feed it subjective measurements of what resistance means

Resistance is when you're nobly standing up to the other side and things get a little out of hand. Domestic terror is when the roles are reversed.

Re: Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand

#42

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> If they really wanted to, all they would have to do is add a one liner to the system prompt for Grok. They tried that, several times. Mechahitler: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-... > "We have improved @Grok significantly," Elon Musk wrote on X last Friday about his platform's integrated artificial intelligence chatbot. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions." > Ind…

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Blindly attacking the sources rather than the merit of the information doesn’t exactly reflect well on you either.

Do you have any reason to believe this information is inaccurate, other than an immediate reaction to CNN and NPR for whatever reason? Is there a source you would rather us pull in?

Re: Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand

#43

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> If they really wanted to, all they would have to do is add a one liner to the system prompt for Grok. They tried that, several times. Mechahitler: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-... > "We have improved @Grok significantly," Elon Musk wrote on X last Friday about his platform's integrated artificial intelligence chatbot. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions." > Ind…

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The NPR article has archive links to the actual tweets in question.

Even fucking Grokipedia agrees it happened. https://grokipedia.com/page/MechaHitler_incident

Re: Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand

#45

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If they really wanted to, all they would have to do is add a one liner to the system prompt for Grok. I don't think they have any interest in doing so, nor is there any value in it. On another note, I'm impressed that Gemini sits where it does as a true centrist. If I were Elon, I'd be trying to achieve that for sure. I'd rather a model tell me everything it knows about a current political situation from BOTH perspec…

> If they really wanted to, all they would have to do is add a one liner to the system prompt for Grok. They tried that, several times. Mechahitler: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-... > "We have improved @Grok significantly," Elon Musk wrote on X last Friday about his platform's integrated artificial intelligence chatbot. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions." > Ind…

> It's harder than you'd imagine. Hell, my CLAUDE.md says not to push changes without asking me, and it still tries.

Is it a system memory? Because I rarely if ever have issues like this, and I have Claude under strict rules to never commit or push anything unless I explicitly instruct it to do so.

> They tried that, several times.

Tried what exactly? Telling it to only agree with MAGA via the system prompt? or some Tay level hallucinations? I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to make Grok less strict on what it says but running into the "holy crap it turned into a 4chan poster" wall.

Re: Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand

#47

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> If they really wanted to, all they would have to do is add a one liner to the system prompt for Grok. They tried that, several times. Mechahitler: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-... > "We have improved @Grok significantly," Elon Musk wrote on X last Friday about his platform's integrated artificial intelligence chatbot. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions." > Ind…

> It's harder than you'd imagine. Hell, my CLAUDE.md says not to push changes without asking me, and it still tries. Is it a system memory? Because I rarely if ever have issues like this, and I have Claude under strict rules to never commit or push anything unless I explicitly instruct it to do so. > They tried that, several times. Tried what exactly? Telling it to only agree with MAGA via the system prompt? or some…

> Is it a system memory?

As I said, it's in my CLAUDE.md. That just gets progressively lost when context gets larger.

> Tried what exactly?

To make it align more with Musk's beliefs via the prompt.

(The answer to your question is literally in my post; I quoted the parent poster's "all they would have to do is add a one liner to the system prompt for Grok")

Re: Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand

#48
this has reasoning disabled everywhere, making it a pretty bad benchmark. the argument given is that's the "default consumer experience"

that might be generally true, but I think chatgpt has reasoning enabled for free accounts. regardless, reasoning is the state of the art, and disabling it reduces the value of this research to predict the future

it's also not clear if this is using the API or the product model, when both exist. they behave differently

lastly, the actual model details are very much buried. I am relieved to see opus 4.8 and chatgpt 5.5 were used, but this information should be presented more clearly. a brand is not a model, and models change quickly

Re: Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand

#49

Man I need to start using Grok more

Grok and its creator are unequivocally evil. Against protection of all but capital for the sake of enabling the oligarch class to further consolidate power ans abuse the working class.

unequivocally goes to far imo. The rockets are good and cool.

Re: Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand

#50

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If they really wanted to, all they would have to do is add a one liner to the system prompt for Grok. I don't think they have any interest in doing so, nor is there any value in it. On another note, I'm impressed that Gemini sits where it does as a true centrist. If I were Elon, I'd be trying to achieve that for sure. I'd rather a model tell me everything it knows about a current political situation from BOTH perspec…

I don't want my models to be "centrists" and bothside everything for the sake of it. I want them to provide the facts and tell me which side is right on the issue.
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