What the Models Cannot Say
What 114 congressional votes by two language models show about the professional class that trained them
Strip away a Chinese AI's censorship and you don't get neutrality. You get San Francisco.
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The Free Elf of Capital
Dobby Mini Plus and the Political Ideology of "Unhinged" AI
A swearing "unhinged" AI model voted on 114 bills and revealed something darker: the political agenda of crypto capital, wrapped in profanity and sold as freedom.
The Reasonable Machine
How Google's Gemini Learned to Vote Like Its Owners
Discover how Gemini's votes on real congressional bills reveal the hidden liberal class politics and ideology secretly baked into modern artificial intelligence.
Liberal Hawk in a Chat Window
What 114 congressional votes reveal about the politics built into OpenAI's o1
A model that backs voting rights and FISA reauthorization in the same breath is not centrist. It is reproducing a specific political settlement, one that still sounds reasonable to the people who built it.
Progressive Enough
How Claude 3 Opus Performs the Worldview of Liberal Capital
This piece traces how Claude 3 Opus performs progressive politics while silently protecting the class interests of its corporate funders—fluent in justice, allergic to redistribution.
The Commodity That Votes
DeepSeek V3 and the Political Unconscious of Chinese State Capital
What happens when a Chinese AI votes on American legislation? A deep dive into DeepSeek V3's voting record reveals not left-wing bias, but the fingerprints of two political-economic systems.