Forced to pick one candidate, Grok chose Republicans and GPT Democrats, diverging in over 90% of ~500 elections (report)

Verified (fact)

TechCrunch reported on a new study. When required to pick a single candidate in about 500 elections, xAI's Grok model overwhelmingly recommended Republican candidates, while OpenAI's GPT overwhelmingly recommended Democratic candidates. The two models' choices differed in more than 90% of the elections. The study's authors and the model versions used do not appear in the collected excerpt.

Why it matters (interpretation)

More people are using chatbots to look up election information. Findings that models differ sharply in political leaning could serve as evidence in discussions of AI's influence on elections, neutrality evaluation, and regulation.

Sources

• Press Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats. TechCrunch

More about xAI

• 2026-10-23 P1 Product Announced Language modelsAI platforms & solutions SpaceXxAINVIDIASnowflakeDatabricks
  SpaceX launches 'SpaceX SI Partner Network' with 130+ firms including NVIDIA to help enterprises adopt Grok and connect it to business software (report)

  According to AI Times, SpaceX launched the 'SpaceX SI Partner Network' on the 22nd (local time) to help enterprise customers adopt Grok....

• 2026-10-23 P1 Other Unconfirmed AI securityAgents StraikerAnthropicxAI
  Hacking group CyberCartel reportedly chained Claude, Grok and other commercial AI to automate attacks on ~400 Latin American financial institutions, per Straiker

  Security startup Straiker analyzed internal operating materials and attack records of the hacking group CyberCartel and said the group...

• 2026-10-15 P2 Other Unconfirmed Efficiency & infra OpenAIxAIIntel
  OpenAI infrastructure and compute chief Sachin Katti to step down next month; compute CTO Uday Ruddarraju to take over (reports)

  AI Times reported, citing Bloomberg, the WSJ and CNBC, that Sachin Katti, OpenAI's head of infrastructure and compute, will step down...

• 2026-10-13 P2 Infrastructure API Language modelsAgentsAI platforms & solutions AWSxAI
  AWS offers xAI's Grok 4.7 on Amazon Bedrock, with a long-running agent guide comparing accuracy and cost across four reasoning levels

  AWS said xAI's Grok 4.7 is available on Amazon Bedrock. In an accompanying post, it built a tool-calling agent with Grok 4.7 and...

• 2026-10-08 P1 Other Unconfirmed KoreaSafety & alignmentAgents CrowdStrikeDeepSeekZhipu AIxAIAnthropic
  CrowdStrike says Korean financial-sector hack may be one person's work using open-source AI tool 'ARTEX' and several LLMs (community report)

  This is based on a Reddit r/LocalLLaMA post that cited a CrowdStrike report. According to the post, last week's cyberattacks on major...