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Study: Grok AI favors Republicans, GPT favors Democrats in 90% of races

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A new study analyzing nearly 500 election races found that Grok's AI model overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates, while OpenAI's GPT models favor Democratic candidates. The two AI systems disagreed in more than 90% of the races examined.

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

    A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.

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