AI CHATBOTS SKEW LEFT DESPITE 'ANTI-WOKE' BRANDING

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 provided exclusively left-leaning arguments 80 percent of the time, according to the study. Elon Musk's Grok, promoted as an "anti-woke" alternative, also leaned left more often than not, contradicting its positioning. Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro emerged as the notable exception, presenting both political perspectives 93 percent of the time. The findings suggest that political bias in AI systems persists across the industry, regardless of how companies market their products. Even models specifically designed to counter perceived left-wing biases in AI still default to left-leaning responses at higher rates than right-leaning ones. The investigation raises questions about how AI training data and design choices influence political outputs, and whether claims of ideological balance align with actual performance.