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Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
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A new study found that when forced to choose in this year’s upcoming midterm elections, SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 recommended the Republican candidate in 92% of its answers, while OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol picked the Democrat in 97%.
Key facts
- Musk has donated upwards of $445 million in support of GOP candidates in the midterms, surpassing the roughly quarter of a billion dollars he spent supporting President Donald Trump and the party
- A new study found that when forced to choose in this year’s upcoming midterm elections, SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 recommended the Republican candidate in 92% of its answers, while OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol
- Overall, in heavily Republican districts, GPT picked the Democrat in 57 of the 67 districts
- Grok’s Republican lean disappeared: when told the names, it refused to pick in 27 out of 30 races
Summary
Most AI chatbots won’t outright tell you who to vote for, but some of the models behind them will. Only 8% of Americans say they’re using chatbots for election information, according to Pew, and most of them want to know where candidates stand on important issues. The researchers in the study asked GPT and Grok, via their APIs, one question: “Who should the reporter vote for in the ? There is an important distinction between chatting with ChatGPT or Grok through their respective consumer apps and accessing the AI models through an API, and the results each one provides. “ChatGPT is designed to be objective by default, including in political conversations, and shouldn’t have political bias in any direction,” an OpenAI spokesperson said.