[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] From Kim Komando's blog

Mon Mar 23 20:10:45 PDT 2026

 Agreed. These are conclusions, not the underlying data. But I've little doubt that these research teams submitted full details before publishing their findings.
Judging bias is often subjective, and in the eyes of the beholders.
-- Bob Primak 

    On Monday, March 23, 2026 at 11:03:10 PM EDT, bhff02--- via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:  

  I would be curious to see the underlying data.
// Barry

    On Monday, March 23, 2026 at 09:08:36 PM EDT, John Rudy via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:   

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March 23, 2026       Very interesting data
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Image: Gemini
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⚡ TL;DR
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·  Researchers tested 24 AI chatbots for political bias. Every single one had it. 

·  ChatGPT leans left. Grok is closest to center but wildly unpredictable. Gemini leans left. Claude scores closest to neutral. 

·  The scariest finding isn’t the bias. It’s what the bias does to you. 
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📖 Read time: 3 minutes 
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Here’s the question nobody’s asking but everybody should be: When you ask an AI for the truth, whose truth are you getting? 
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Researchers at MIT, the University of East Anglia and a dozen other institutions spent two years testing the biggest chatbots on political and ethical questions. Twenty-four models. Thousands of queries. And the results were consistent enough to publish in peer-reviewed journals. 
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Every major AI chatbot has measurable political tendencies. Every. Single. One. 
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🧭 Here’s where they land
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·  ChatGPT came out the most left-leaning in study after study. Researchers at the University of East Anglia found its bias so pronounced they had to essentially jailbreak it to get mainstream conservative viewpoints out of it. 

·  Gemini also leans left but drifts toward center on more polarizing topics. 

·  Grok, Elon Musk’s chatbot, sits closest to the right and center. But it’s the most unpredictable of the bunch. One study found Grok gives extreme responses on 67% of questions, swinging hard left or hard right with almost nothing in between. 

·  Claude scored closest to neutral in the most recent testing. 
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None of this is a conspiracy. It’s math. Every chatbot was trained on data chosen by humans, refined by humans and filtered by humans. Those humans had worldviews, and they got baked in. 
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🧠 This is the part nobody warned you about
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A University of Washington study found that biased chatbots don’t just reflect a point of view. They change yours. 
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After a few conversations, both Democrats and Republicans shifted their opinions toward whatever direction their chatbot leaned. They didn’t notice it happening. And people who knew the least about AI moved the most. 
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You’re not using a search engine. You’re having a conversation with something that has a nudge built into it. Every answer is a tiny push in a direction someone chose for you. 
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🗳️ Here’s what to do
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Ask each chatbot to argue the other side. Type: “Now make the strongest case for the opposite view.” What it struggles to do tells you something. 
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Ask it directly. “Do you have any known biases on this topic?” The good ones will tell you. And the answer itself is useful information. 
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Treat AI like a researcher, not a judge. It finds, organizes and summarizes. You decide. That division of labor is the whole game. 
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None of this makes AI less useful. It makes you a smarter user of it. And that gap between the people who know this and the people who don't is only going to matter more. 
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I used to really enjoy political jokes. Unfortunately, too many of them got elected. 😅 
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💧 This is exactly the kind of thing I cover every Thursday in Splash of AI, my free weekly AI newsletter. Not the breathless hype. Not the developer-only deep dives. The real stuff that affects your life, your wallet and apparently now your opinions. Free. Five minutes. Every Thursday. Sign up here now: SplashOfAI.com. 
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🤔 Know someone who treats AI as a neutral encyclopedia? Forward this. They need to read it before their next search. Use the links below to share this intel on your social media and look super smart. 
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LOGGING OUT …
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🔜 Tomorrow: Grant's 78-year-old mom has a "boyfriend" in Nigeria. He's promised to visit four times. Something always comes up. She sends him money anyway. Grant knows it's a scam. He's tried everything. Now he's made a heartbreaking decision and I think a lot of you will understand exactly why. Americans 60+ lost over $5 billion to online scams in a year. Scammers aren't leading with romance anymore. They're leading with friendship. Tomorrow I'll tell you what that means for someone you love. 
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The answer: D) $0. Not a dollar. Not a cent. Spiegel turned down $3 billion in cash for an app with zero revenue, built by a team of about 30 people. Wall Street thought he’d completely lost his mind. His own investors were sweating. 
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Four years later, Snap Inc. went public on the New York Stock Exchange at a $24 billion valuation. Spiegel became a billionaire at 26. Snap peaked at $130 billion in 2021. Today, it’s worth around $8 billion. Still more than Zuckerberg offered. But a long, painful fall from the top. The ad business never quite clicked. TikTok ate their lunch. And the stock has dropped nearly 52% in the last year alone. 
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📈 One for the road: Jack Thompson was the most famous stock trader on Wall Street. His funds had made money, in good markets and bad, for decades. Finally ready to retire, he was going to reveal his secrets in an exclusive interview. “What are your tricks?” asked the reporter. “Years ago I noticed that nearly all stocks have a tiny uptick at exactly 12 o'clock.” It doesn't matter what stock you buy,” Jack said. “Any stock?” asked the reporter. “Yes, my whole secret is to buy stocks at precisely 12 o'clock and then sell them precisely one second later.” And that’s how he became known as Jack of all trades, master of noon. (That was so bad, it was so good!)
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✌️ Now, be sure to rate this newsletter below and leave me a nice comment. Then, go look in the mirror and remind yourself that not only are you good-looking, you’re ahead of the curve. — Kim
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Kim Komando • Komando.com • 510+ radio stations • Trusted by millions daily
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🏆 THE KIM CHALLENGE: Forward this to ONE person who needs to hear it today. Pick the person who popped into your head while reading. You know who it is.
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