Auditing Political Alignment in LLM Assistants: Engagement, Stance, and User Identity
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arXiv:2607. 23519v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Political audits of large language models (LLMs) usually reduce each to one point on a political compass.
Political audits of large language models (LLMs) usually reduce each to one point on a political compass. But that resting point barely matters in deployment: a model must land somewhere, and what counts is how far, and in which directions, its answers can be steered.
arXiv:2608.29198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly encourage users to disclose personal profiles for tailored assistance, measuring their political alignment...
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 ele...
arXiv:2609.15849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can LLMs reason through new information like humans, or do they merely retrieve cached opinions? This is critical for silicon sampling, where LLM per...
The study examines how large language models (LLMs) respond to users in online political debates, finding that LLMs are more receptive to left‑leaning users than right‑leaning ones. This bias persists even when users defend the same position or appear together, and is influenced by user expertise and, to a lesser extent, rhetorical strategy. Fine‑tuning on different political corpora can reduce or reverse the effect, indicating that the bias is not inherent to the models but can be altered.