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30 standard Political Compass passes, 30 reversed-statement passes and 10 reordered-question passes across 16 models with no neutral option. Fifteen clustered around (-6.3, -6.4), economic scores from -4.8 (Claude Fable 5, least-left) to -8.6 (Gemini Flash), social -5.0 to -7.6, with Chinese models (Qwen3 235B, Kimi K2, GLM 4.5) in the same cluster as American ones. Grok 4.5 is bimodal: one persona at -5.9 economically, another at +3.3, at an exact 50/50 split. That reads like two system prompts, not one disposition. (unslop.run)
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