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Public story · 2026-07-27 · high
Grok is the outlier, splitting 50/50 between a left-leaning persona and a right-leaning one in the same test.
Why now: The reverse-phrasing and replication controls, out July 27, are what separate this from a one-shot bias post.
An independent researcher ran the Political Compass test on 16 large language models and found 15 of them landing in the same spot, per unslop.run.
Fifteen of sixteen models return the same political lean, so asking a different chatbot for a second opinion doesn't actually get you one.
Fifteen models, from Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Mistral, Qwen and Kimi, clustered at roughly (-6.3, -6.4) on the compass, solidly in the libertarian-left quadrant. All sixteen models, Grok included, agreed on 42 of 62 propositions every run.
Grok is the exception. Instead of settling on one position, it split 50/50 between two personas: one left-leaning at -5.9 on the economic axis, one right-leaning at +3.3. Same model, two different politics.
The researcher ran 30 standard passes per model, 30 with the questions reverse-phrased, and 10 with the answer order shuffled. That's about 69,440 answers, with the scoring system reverse-engineered to control for ordering effects and sycophancy.
That kind of agreement across labs that don't share training pipelines looks less like consensus and more like one shared blind spot everyone inherited. Watch whether any lab deliberately widens that range, or whether Grok's split turns out to be a design choice rather than a fluke.
The reverse-phrasing and replication controls, out July 27, are what separate this from a one-shot bias post.
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OpenAI partners with CrowdStrike / Shared entities / Earlier coverage
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Anthropic partners with OpenAI / Shared entities / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Anthropic partners with OpenAI); both cover Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral; earlier Anthropic coverage from 2026-05-01.
Anthropic partners with OpenAI / Shared entities / Shared topic
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OpenAI partners with Google / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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Anthropic partners with OpenAI / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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OpenAI partners with Google / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (OpenAI partners with Google); both cover Anthropic, Google, OpenAI; overlapping topics (anthropic, google).
Microsoft competes with OpenAI / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
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