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LLMs show subtle political biases in Swedish election context, study finds

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A new paper published on arXiv investigates the political biases of several large language models (LLMs) in the context of the upcoming 2026 Swedish parliamentary election. Researchers tested models including Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Mistral AI, ChatGPT, and Grok by prompting them with 107 policy propositions across various writing tasks and prompt framings. The study found that while models like Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, and Mistral AI exhibited similar profiles, ChatGPT tended to produce more neutral responses, and Grok showed distinct differences on issues like migration and crime. The Social Democrats party's stances were found to be closest to most of the tested models, though no statistically significant party preference was identified for any single model. AI

IMPACT Highlights the need for careful consideration of LLM outputs in political contexts and informs users about potential biases in AI-driven information gathering.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Bastiaan Bruinsma, Annika Fred\'en, Paul R\"ottger, Moa Johansson, Asad Sayeed ·

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    arXiv:2609.15207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI writing assistants and the Large Language Models (LLMs) that power them are increasingly part of how voters gather information before elections. With growing evidence that they influence users' opinions, it is increasi…

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