This chart is also a map of the training data.
Most models on the left were fed Wikipedia and the public web, which is dominated by the same newsrooms and institutions. Grok sees that too, plus the actual arguments people make on X.
That second source is messier. It is also much wider. If the pre-X public web already leaned one way, the models trained only on it will lean the same way.
Someone gave the leading AI models the Political Compass test.
Grok 4.5 landed by far closest to the political center.
Every model from Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Deepseek, and others clustered far to the left.
This is why building a maximally truth-seeking AI matters.
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