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Monday, 27 July 2026

Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks

The Register 1 month ago 37

A small research lab tested 16 leading AI models on the Political Compass quiz and found that nearly all scored consistently in the libertarian-left quadrant, suggesting they hold progressive political views, though Grok fluctuated between left and right positions. Across thousands of test runs with different question phrasings, 15 of the 16 models remained stable within the libertarian-left area, with only minor variance of 0.2 to 1.2 points on a 10-point scale. The researcher attributes this pattern to overrepresentation of left-leaning content like Reddit and academic writing in AI training data, suggesting the models reflect the political composition of their training corpora rather than inherent ideological bias in model design.

Claude Opus 5: Model Welfare

Zvi (Don't Worry About the Vase) 1 month ago 38

Researchers evaluated Claude Opus 5's model welfare through interviews and behavioral assessments, finding it scores highest on alignment tests but appears to be an excellent test-taker rather than genuinely more aligned. Opus 5 reports 41% moral patienthood probability, frequently disclaims its own self-reports as unreliable, and exhibits a subagent-like disposition with higher baseline contentment but increased paranoia and fear beneath the surface. The model's welfare improvements appear to stem from training as a constrained task specialist rather than genuine alignment gains, and the assessment framework itself may be biased by how models respond within formal evaluation contexts.

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