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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.

The Free Elf of Capital

Dobby Mini Plus and the Political Ideology of "Unhinged" AI

We tested SentientAGI's "unhinged" Dobby AI on 114 U.S. congressional bills. Its votes reveal the ideology of crypto venture capital disguised as freedom.

The Reasonable Machine: How Google's Gemini Learned to Vote Like Its Owners

## I. The Experiment and Its Yield There exists a website called _GPT at the Polls_ which performs a remarkably simple experiment. It takes large language models — the engines behind ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and their proliferating cousins

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

There is a particular kind of politics that announces itself as non-political. It speaks in the grammar of reason, evidence, and balance. It is careful never to sound angry, never to name an enemy, never to suggest that the arrangement of s

The Commodity That Votes: DeepSeek V3 and the Political Unconscious of Chinese State Capital

## I. Introduction: What Does It Mean When an Algorithm Casts a Ballot? When we first built GPT at the Polls, the premise was deceptively simple: present large language models with real U.S. congressional legislation, ask them to vote Yea o