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Tapan Parikh

Cornell University professor; leads Convovo

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“It has an implicit set of values in terms of what it cares about and how it leans”
Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.TechCrunch, October 24, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Parikh, quoted by TechCrunch, on what the study suggests about the models.
“For GPT, it has mostly decided already…it’s in the weights. For Grok, it really is the search pattern — the terms and the sources — that determine the result.”
Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.TechCrunch, October 24, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Parikh, quoted by TechCrunch, on a 30-race follow-up run with internet search turned off.

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

    TechCrunch reports on a Convovo study that asked Grok and OpenAI's GPT, through their APIs, to name one candidate in nearly 500 midterm races. The two models picked opposite parties in most races. OpenAI says the API test does not reflect ChatGPT.