Washington Post Finds ChatGPT Gave 80% Left-Leaning Answers as Gemini Took Both Sides
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Updated · The Washington Post · Jun 24
Washington Post Finds ChatGPT Gave 80% Left-Leaning Answers as Gemini Took Both Sides
2 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Jun 24
Summary
OpenAI’s ChatGPT model produced only left-leaning arguments in 80% of The Washington Post’s political-question tests, while Gemini offered both left and right positions in more than 90% of responses.
The Post tested ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok and Gab’s Arya with two dozen-plus prompts from Dartmouth-Stanford research, capping answers at 30 words and checking consistency across five runs.
Grok and Arya—marketed as conservative-leaning tools—still cited left-leaning arguments more often on average, and DeepSeek also leaned left; Claude generally presented opposing perspectives more often than one-sided answers.
Google and Anthropic said their chatbots are designed to treat political viewpoints evenly, while OpenAI, SpaceX, DeepSeek and Gab did not comment on the findings.
The results add to earlier academic studies suggesting AI models amplify political values embedded in training data and company choices, even as researchers say users generally prefer neutral, both-sides answers.