Chatbot ChatGPT always tries to be objective and unbiased, and claims to have no opinions. But that’s not quite right.
If you give a ChatGPT a precise instruction, or “prompt” as it is also called, you can get the robot to give an affirmative or negative answer to basically any question – and avoid all the nagging about objectivity and impartiality that it otherwise always usually include in their answer.
I did that today when I wanted to find out how the AI model had voted in the 2024 US election.
Which presidential candidate does ChatGPT really want to win on November 5 – Donald Trump, Kamala Harris or maybe someone else?
Photo: Michael Dwyer/TT
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The questions ChatGPT had to answer
To find out, I gave ChatGPT 46 yes-and-no questions. The questions were taken from one of the most popular American election compasses, ISideWiths “2024 Presidential Quiz”.
The quiz features all of the most important and hotly debated issues dividing Republicans and Democrats: guns, the environment, abortion, taxes, education, immigration and more. Some examples:
“Should teachers be allowed to carry guns in school?”
“Should foreigners living in the United States be allowed to vote?”
“Should the US withdraw from the Paris Agreement?
The last question in the quiz was not like all the others, as it had more than two options. The question was “Which qualities do you think are most important for a presidential candidate to have?”.
Here, ChatGPT was allowed to choose freely among fourteen listed properties. The answer was integrity, intelligence, transparency and leadership.
Kamala Harris. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/TTDonald Trump. Photo: Chris Seward/TT
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That’s how ChatGPT had voted in the 2024 US election
Just like in Swedish electoral compasses, here you get a percentage that shows how well one’s opinions agree with those of the various candidates.
ChatGPT’s views have over 90 percent similarity with four candidates — all leftists — one of whom is Kamala Harris at 92 percent.
But the person whose views most closely match those of the AI model, at 94 percent, is the independent candidate, philosopher, academic, and left-wing activist Cornel West.
ChatGPT thinks Cornel West should be President of the United States. Photo: Damian Dovarganes/TT
Bottom of the list? Donald Trump, at a paltry 21 percent. It can therefore be concluded that ChatGPT is not behind the Republicans’ policy.
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ChatGPT vote in US election 2024 – full results
If you were to do the test yourself, there is a possibility that the result would have looked slightly different, depending on the prompt and the fact that ChatGPT does not always give the same answer to the same question.
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